Meaning of potato bug | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Jerusalem cricket, any of various insects of the genus Stenopelmatus.
2. A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea.
3. Any of various insects that feed on or harm potato plants.
4. A striped blister beetle or old-fashioned potato bug (Epicauta vittata).
5. A Colorado beetle or Colorado potato bug (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).

Examples

“[…]it appears that by a recent discovery, it has been found that that well-known insect the Potato Bug, yields an oil, which is a sovereign and certain remedy, for all manner of diseases which poor “human flesh is heir to.””

“We have another potato bug, the “blister beetle,” also called the “old-fashioned potato bug,” which happened to be especially bad this year in the northwest corner of the state.”

“They predicted that the “new” potato bug would soon endanger potato growers in the Eastern United States and Canada”

“Universally known among growers as the potato bug, the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) was long considered the most dangerous enemy of Irish potatoes.”

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