Early in the morning you go out with a small propane torch and you
flame the potato beetles and mexican bean beetles and asparagus
beetles.
Enough of a pass to singe the hair on your forearm does them in.
Once singed they do not eat or breed.
Then you look on the underside of the leaves and remove eggs and larvae
with your thumb.
No it doesn't harm the plants, don't burn the place down, and it
catches the little *******s before thay can go into the duck and cover
mode.
For the "ppotatoe" you could say this is the "nucular" option!