They’ve been feasting on my roses, and I even saw one on a sheet hanging on the clothesline. Stoopit bugs. On the other hand it’s better than the invasion of the stink bugs a few years back. Those things were nasty!!
Stink bugs! That’s another plague we had earlier. And they just disappeared. I haven’t seen one in over a month.
No ants, no beetles, no stink bugs. Not even many mosquitoes, what the hell is going on this summer?
Atlanta area here. They’re here, but not as plentiful as usual.
Best idea I ever got was this: Get a trap and give it to your neighbor! He’ll think you’re nice, and the beetles hang around his place instead of yours!
I finally saw some of the beetles alive. Well not just some - I think all.
I went outside around 2 AM and turned on my porch light. I was SWARMED. It was creepy as fuck. I was waiting for my dog to do her business and I had to stand there like a maroon and flap my arms just to keep the bugs out of my ears and hair.
If anyone is missing Japanese beetles, please come retrieve them at my house.
We have Japanese Beetles around here, but they don’t seem to be a huge problem. We had a plague of Japanese Ladybugs many years back, but they seem to have disappeared since then. This year, we’re back to good ol’ fashioned mosquitos.
There are at least some here in the DC area. My wife’s stopped complaining about the Rose Slugs eating her roses and now complains about Japanese Beatles.
For the sake of comparison, since there seem to be various names for beetle like creatures, here is what I consider a “Japanese Beetle”, and here is a “June Bug”.
When I was young we would catch a Japanese Beetle, tie a light string around a back leg, and hold them like a kite as they flew around. Didn’t take much to entertain us country kids.
SE Vermont, and tons of Japanese beetles this year. It sucks because they love to eat leaves on my hops plants.
All the Beetles I see around here are German…
Me and my big mouth - saw some today, decimating what’s left of the roses.
:mad:
On the other hand, there are dozens of fireflies in the yard at night, and today while I was out counting the bees in the patch of beesbalm, a wonderful hummingbird moth, workin’ it!
All of the Japanese beetles are having sex on my raspberry bushes. The they jump into my pool, where they find themselves a floating pine needle and have sex again before drowning.
None here, but according to the horticulture people on Iowa Public Radio, they’re pestiferous in other parts of the state.
We’re almost bug-free since the rain stopped, a couple weeks ago. Very few mosquitoes, not many flies, fewer gnats. Lots of fireflies now, but they were late.
But I’m worried about the hummingbirds. Last year we’d have a dozen at the feeders; this year, we’ve only seen two.
We’ll have the Asian Lady Beetle when the farmers start harvesting.
They’re in Wisconsin. They are not in plague quantities yet. Until this week, we’ve been cool to moderate temperature with constant rain. The conditions have produced a plague of mold and plant disease. We’ve had 2 our normal rainfall this year and flood conditions for 4 months. i take it this discourages Japanese Beetles from living.
I’m in the St. Louis area, and I haven’t seen any Japanese beetles since summer 2011. Last summer we had those cicadas and I didn’t see a single one. I chalked it up to a combination of the cicadas and the drought. None this year either. I’ve seen maybe two June bugs. I have seen some ants but no infestations. I think all the rain this year has drowned a lot of bugs.
I’m east of St. Louis, and while they’re here, they aren’t in the huge, if-you-listen-close-you-can-hear-them-eat numbers. I hand pick them (sort of like a perverse berry-picking exercise) and my Container O’ Beetle Death hasn’t been full at all this year.
I just noticed Japanese beetles on my cherry tree last week. None in the garden, but I have noticed brilliant red bugs that have the general shape of boxelder bugs but they are much prettier, with longer antennae. They’re humping all over my beets, to my dismay.