| colorado potato beetle | (n) black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide, Syn. potato beetle, potato bug, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, Colorado beetle |
| Colorado beetle | (Zool.) A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also |