bugs on my potatoe plants

[tlister1968]

we have bugs on our potato leaves and don't know what they are.... they look a little like a ladybug. Boy are they eating on the leaves..any ideas of what they may be???? We live in Tennessee if that's helpful....

[Kisal]

Colorado Potato beetles, perhaps?

[img]https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D2MiWbLwOF8/SlJNpYXlmxI/AAAAAAAABB8/Nms_At2nSa4/s320/DSCN5531+Coccinella+septempunctata+-+Seven-spotted+Lady+Beetle.JPG[/img]

[carol_in_va]

Mexican Bean Beetle?

We're in Virginia and I've been picking these off my plants and plopping them into my jelly jar of death! You can differentiate these from ladybugs by their orange heads, opposed to the ladybugs' black heads.

[img]https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/bean/mexican_bean_beetle03.jpg[/img]

Kisal, I think that's a ladybug. I looked up the CPB and found this image instead:

[img]https://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/images/cpb.jpg[/img]

I've been popping these into my jelly jar of death, too!

[Kisal]

Yep! I got in a hurry and didn't catch it when google images misled me.

[carol_in_va]