Larvae Of A Colorado Beetle On The Leaves Of A Potato Bush. Stock Photography

Larvae of a Colorado beetle on the leaves of a potato Bush. The Colorado potato beetle or potato leaf beetle lat. Leptinotarsa decemlineata is a species of insect in the family of leaf beetles. Beetles and larvae of this species feed on the leaves of plants of the Solanaceae family: potatoes, sweet peppers, tomatoes, birch, physalis, eggplant, henbane, which makes them dangerous pests of agriculture. A Colorado beetle larva with a black head and two rows of black dots on the sides of the body, which is why it is often confused with a ladybug larva, only the ladybug larva is gray with orange spots. Larvae cause the main damage to potato plantings in agriculture by eating potato leaves.