UK pest status report - Leptinotarsa decemlineata
- old revision
- Event Reporting
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- Pest status
- Publication Date
- 11-12-2025
- Last Updated
- Dec. 11, 2025, 12:59 p.m.
- Short Description
Present: not widely distributed and under official control. Single localised outbreak.
- Contact for Info
- [email protected]
- Issue keywords
- Commodity keywords
- Seed potatoes
- Report files
- Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado beetle) pest report
- Website
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/30380
- https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/leaf/potato_beetles.htm
- https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/phiw/riskRegister/viewPestRisks.cfm?cslref=4840
- https://planthealthportal.defra.gov.uk/assets/factsheets/colorado-beetle-factsheet.pdf
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2338.1980.tb01734.x