Howdy bug lover's and welcome to today's episode of Arthro-Pod! Over the last couple of years, Jonathan has noticed it seems like the Colorado potato beetle pops up again and again in the history of entomology. So, for today's show, he tried to cover this handsome beetle's history from the 1800s until today. It's a crazy tale that involved colonization, war, Cold War era tactics, and even the Ukrainian-Russian War. Tune in to hear how this humble coleopteran from the Great Plains has become an international super bug! We would also love to direct you to listener Emily Sur's design store! Pick up a cool shirt or other fun item today! https://my-store-dd3c45.creator-spring.com Show notesMajor source: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lawrence-Lacey/publication/291303476_Microbial_control_of_the_potato_tuber_moth_Lepidoptera_Gelechiidae/links/56a7be9308ae860e0255857e/Microbial-control-of-the-potato-tuber-moth-Lepidoptera-Gelechiidae.pdf Say’s Descriptionhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4268076&view=1up&seq=493 While not a Colorado potato beetle, this diagram shows off the trick tarsal formula for CPBOrigin of CPB https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=tgleThe movement of Colorado potato beetle from Nebraska to the Eastern US The movement of Colorado potato beetle as an invasive pest in Europe.  Origins of potatoeshttps://web.archive.org/web/20110426183520/http://www.cipotato.org/pressroom/press_releases_detail.asp?cod=17&lang=en https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200302-the-true-origins-of-the-humble-potato Native potatoes:https://www.the-journal.com/articles/on-the-trail-of-tiny-tubers-this-four-corners-potato-was-a-staple-of-native-american-diets/https://thecounter.org/four-corners-potato-species-indigenous-crop-navajo-nation-usda-southwest-future/War on the Potato Beetlehttps://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23929124 Communist propaganda:https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/amikafer.htm Ukraine and Koloradihttps://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-colorado-beetle-separatists/25365793.htmlhttps://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/amet.13131CPB Control https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/2424e/ https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/pdf-doc-ppt/cpb_insecticide_groups.pdf https://cropwatch.unl.edu/potato/colo_potato_beetle Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!