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名詞

potato bug (plural potato bugs)

1. A Jerusalem cricket, any of various insects of the genus Stenopelmatus.
2. A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea.
3. Any of various insects that feed on or harm potato plants.
   • 1838, “Legislating; or, the rival whiskers”, in The Hesperian‎, page 42:

     […] it appears that by a recent discovery, it has been found that that well-known insect the Potato Bug, yields an oil, which is a sovereign and certain remedy, for all manner of diseases which poor “human flesh is heir to.”

   1. A striped blister beetle or old-fashioned potato bug (Epicauta vittata).
      • 1919, Missouri State Board of Agriculture, The New Seed Law, page 58:

        We have another potato bug, the “blister beetle,” also called the “old-fashioned potato bug,” which happened to be especially bad this year in the northwest corner of the state.

   2. A Colorado beetle or Colorado potato bug (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).
      • 1995, Willis Conner Sorensen, Brethren of the Net‎, page 122:

        They predicted that the “new” potato bug would soon endanger potato growers in the Eastern United States and Canada

      • 2018 December 13, Randall Griffin, Joey Williamson, “Sweet potato and Irish potato insects”, in Clemson Cooperative Extension Home & Garden Information Center‎:

        Universally known among growers as the potato bug, the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) was long considered the most dangerous enemy of Irish potatoes.