Posted on 08/10/2015 10:58:34 AM PDT by Kevin in California
Been living in the Bay Area (San Jose) since 1967 and have never seen one of these beetles until the last week or so. The pic is deceiving but this thing is pretty good sized. Sounds like a mini 747 when it flies. Also, has a bad ass shiny green color almost looks like it was green anodized.
Down south they have a flying roach that looks and sounds like you`d need AAA to down it, try lots of screens and a BIG fly swatter.
Those suckers live to eat and fornycate. The destry so many things.
‘Japanese’ scarab beetle.
I bet you have roses around the house, or your neighbors. When I lived in California they would show up from time to time and they never got very big. They’ll eat your roses real fast.
Japanese beetle
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05601.html
It’s a Tank Bug from Starship Troopers!
Cotinus nitida.
June bugs are brown, aren’t they?
It’s a Japanese beetle (at least, that is certainly what it looks like). If it is, you really want to do something, because they will strip trees and plants bare. I have found the best approach is one of those beetle bags. It will attract them from a long distance, and you will end up with bagfuls of beetles squirming among beetle corpses. At the height of the season, I will be getting ~1 bag per day. Spraying had little effect, but the bags worked wonders.
It’s kind of hypnotizing watching the beetle bag sway on a still summer afternoon, because you know that it is the frantic movements of these desperate miracles-of-nature trying to escape their stench-filled coffin that is providing the movement. At least, this is hypnotizing and gratifying after you have seen the devastation that they do to otherwise healthy trees.
I am a big fan of insecticide of all types.
The only thing holding me back is my dogs and my kid: Will I give them cancer later on by broadcasting all this stuff on my yard?
I remember being a kid, and my mom explaining the new laws on the books. she said drink up, this is the last time you will ever taste Malathion.
Yes I do...have 6 rose bushes in my backyard which is where I found him.
Japanese beetle.
Quit growing roses and you should be ok.
Agree!
Probably a close relative the Figeater beetle which is common in the SW.
Used to get Japanese beetles like CRAZY here is W PA, especially on grapevines and rose bushes.
Then came DDT and the are now pretty much gone.
Used a lot of DDT in the 50’s when I was less than 10 YO.
Didn’t harm me.
well except for that haunting, nasty twitch and an IQ over 160...
Fogetta bout the traps, unless you’re planning to take in tenants.
We used to say that we could tell that they were Japanese beetles because they all had big cameras hang from their shoulders. But that’s both obsolete and un-PC.
Looks like a Japanese beetle. They swarm on gardens in the summer, eating everything. The only thing that deters them is the beetle trap. It’s a bag that is infused with beetle sex pheromones. They are attracted hoping to get lucky. They fall in the bag and can’t get out.
Kill them. Kill them all.
DDT never affected me. Affected me.
Cotinis nitida
Japanese beetle.
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