Show origin of potato bugs the co colorado ora potato beetle receives its ita common name from the fact that its native home was at the eastern base of the rocky mountains where it fed upon a species of wild potato quite common to this region known as the sandbur sand bur Solan solanum urn ro rostra stratum tuni it was collected there anil and described by thomas say in 1821 it was first mentioned as an injurious insect in 1859 when some ot of the early settlers of western nebraska reported it feeding in large numbers upon the irish potato we thus see that the species changed its food from a wild to a cultivated plant as has been the case with many of our injurious insects ex |