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Important Updates on the Air Potato Leaf Beetle

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will no longer be raising and distributing the Air Potato Beetles that they have been for years. Please see the notice below for more information:

Spring 2022 Air Potato Beetle Update

Special contribution from Rosemary Murray with Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services As we enter spring, different strategies should be employed to control your air potato infestation. Vines will gradually begin to emerge from underground tubers and...
Important Update on How to Get Beetles

Important Update on How to Get Beetles

Who produces air potato beetles? Air potato beetles are reared (produced) by the biological control lab at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) Division of Plant Industry (DPI) in Gainesville Florida. They can rear about 50,000 beetles...

Spring Is Here!

Well, for most of Florida it is, and in South Florida it never really left as far as air potato is concerned. We wanted to let you know that the Air Potato Patrol program is back and we are here to help answer all of your questions. We are working hard to inform...

Air Potato Beetle Distribution Update

The following is an update on how the air potato beetles will be distributed at the current time, from Emily Kraus, head of the beetle rearing program: We would like to make the public aware of extensive changes to the air potato beetle shipping program. The beetle...

A Week In The Life Of A Beetle Rancher

Rosemary Murray is an OPS Laboratory Technician IV in the Methods Development & Biological Control Department, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. That’s a really long name for someone who helps to raise air...