Anyone have a good remedy for potato bugs (the little red round ones)? I've done some digging on the internet but I'm not coming up with a solution for current a problem. Lots of prevention techniques.
One place suggested diatomaceous earth but that was for bug that looks like a cricket.
I assume you talking about Colorado Potato Beetles, which have red larvae. The adults are brown and yellow striped, and the eggs are bright orange.
I battled them for years, and Pyrethrin (derived from an African Chrysanthemum) was the only thing that worked, other than picking them off every day, and that wasn't very practical. Then someone told me to wait until June to plant them. Since I've started doing that, I see very few of them, and they, and their eggs and larvae, are easily picked off. I usually plant about the end of the first week of June, although I didn't finish this year until about the middle of the month. That still give plenty of time for them to mature.
I think diatomaceous earth would work on the larvae, but you have to apply it directly to where they are, and it won't affect the eggs, which, as I'm sure you know, are easily overlooked by late July when the potato plants form a vast jungle.
But if you're talking about some other bug, then I don't have a clue.
