Rare sugar beet pest found in Norfolk

Tortoise beetles have been found in a sugar beet crop in Wissington, Norfolk.

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Rare sugar beet pest found in Norfolk

Tortoise beetles have been found in a sugar beet crop in Wissington, Norfolk. As a very rare species in the UK, it is the first case of the pest ever reported to the British Beet Research Organisation...

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