"John Bachman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:44:41 -0000, "
wrote:

What do I do about them? Is there anything on the market that will
kill them off? My little crop of potatoes is infested. Any advice
will be appreciated.


I used to spend an hour every day inspecting my plants and squishing
CPB. The trick is to find the eggs, orange clusters on the bottom of
the leaves, and scrape them off. If you get the eggs there will be no
larvae which do most of the damage. It is a time consuming but
effective method.

If you choose a chemical solution, Imidan will do the trick. READ THE
LABEL!

John

My Pop used to plant marigolds around his potato plants. Swore that they
repelled the potato bugs. Funny thing is - he never had a problem with the
bugs. I did the same thing and it didn't work very well, helped a little,
but not much.................yeah, I know - not much help from me there. I
have done what John said about the eggs - that works well if you find all
the eggs.

Rae