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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 09:59, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

War against the potato beetle

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Created by Volunteer Marek (talk). Nominated by Piotrus (talk) at 09:24, 31 October 2013 (UTC).

  • Can add image of the beetle (there's also a bunch of photographs from East Germany showing workers eradicating the beetle):

Colorado potato beetle

Some possible ALT hooks:

  • Going with ALT2. New enough and long enough. Hook sourced to a book but page 136 not available to me. Image is in the public domain. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:26, 8 November 2013 (UTC)