Colorado Beetle Eggs Identification 15X Loupe
SKU: 23203-3
Colorado potato beetles are serious agricultural insect pest defoliators. Commercial farms need limit leaf damage that can ruin an entire crop for serious yield loss. This 15X hands lens helps identify its bright yellow-orange oval eggs or its early larval instar with black legs & black spots. It can also help distinguish CPB from false potato beetle egg masses for effective biological, chemical or cultural control Potato Pest Management. Need higher magnification or a photographic record" See our 10X 23mm loupe used with a cell phone camera
Cultural control protects natural predators and limits pesticide resistance. Hand removal of unhatched eggs from the undersurface of the host plant's leaves is something a home gardener can do for eggplant, peppers or tomatoes but is not practical for commercial potato fields.
IPM recommends biological control with beneficial insects like the two-spotted stink bug (aka double-eyed soldier bug), Perillus bioculatus which is a natural predator of the potato beetle.
Thanks for the review & feedback. We haven't been able to get a version with both a loop to attach a lanyard & a flat surface to allowing branding (printing). Our Phone Camera Dissecting Microscope shows a close up of a fly but we recommend the 10X 23mm for its better depth of field. It might also allow you to see cells such as leaf stomata or cork.