Colonization of potato (Solanum tuberosum [L.]) Þelds by Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), has often been recognized as a process that initially results in an edge-biased spatial pattern. We modeled this spatial process by measuring distance of immigration for individual overwintered adults.Distancewasmeasured to the nearest Þeld edge or to the...
