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Cucumber beetles (we had the spotted variety, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi in all its eleven-spotted doom) emerge in late spring when the weather gets up to the 60's.
Dave Snyder: Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 5 2010
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Cucumber beetles (we had the spotted variety, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi in all its eleven-spotted doom) emerge in late spring when the weather gets up to the 60's.
Dave Snyder: Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 5 2010
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(Diabrotica balteata), bean leaf beetle (Cerotoma), flea beetle (Epitrix), and Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna), attack bean leaves.
Chapter 10 1981
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Some insects like the corn rootworm beetle (Diabrotica spp.) or Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) can cut off the silks before pollination.
Chapter 7 1981
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Rootworms (Diabrotica, others): Small, slender, whitish larvae with brown heads, measuring up to almost 20 mm.
Chapter 10 1981
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EDITOR PRAIRIE FARMER -- There can be hardly a shadow of a doubt that the injury which your correspondent so graphically describes is due to the corn root-worm (Diabrotica longicornis), a full account of which will be found in my report for 1882, published last November.
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The Squash beetle (Diabrotica vittata, Fig. 231, and Fig. 230, D. 12-punctata) now attacks the squash plants before they are fairly up; and the Plum weevil (Conotrachelus nenuphar, Fig. 232) will sting the newly formed fruit, late in the month, or early in June.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Maize MON863 expresses a variant Bacillus thuringiensis cry3Bb1 gene which confers protection against coleopteran pests, principally the corn rootworm (Diabrotica spp.).
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The larvae of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera beetles wreak havoc on maize.
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The larvae of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera beetles wreak havoc on maize.
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