spotted cucumber beetle
noun
: a rather slender greenish-yellow beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi) that feeds as an adult on various ornamental and crop plants and is a vector of wilt disease especially of cucumbers and melons
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The Indiana bat and other bats are important in many ways, Scott said, including their appetite for the spotted cucumber beetle, an agriculture pest.
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Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
Stubborn pests like spotted cucumber beetles and flea beetles can be killed with nontoxic products like spinosad, essential oil products and orange oil.
—Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
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Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
Stubborn pests like spotted cucumber beetles and flea beetles can be killed with nontoxic products like spinosad, essential oil products and orange oil.
—Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
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