Japanese Beetles
The Japanese beetle affects gardens everywhere. Gardeners will find their plants and their shrubs are eaten away in just a matter of days if they are not handled right away. This plagues many gardens across the country.

Posted Monday, April 10, 2006

Japanese beetles were first found in the US over eighty years ago. This beetle is becoming a threat to many plants and crops because the natural Japanese beetle enemy is not found readily in the US. When your soil reaches fifty to sixty degrees during the summer months you will notice the Japanese beetle making an appearance in your lawn and in your gardens.

The Japanese beetle has a unique look. This pest can be up to a half inch long with a green and brown metal look to them. The green and brown metal look reminds me of oil floating in water. Their wing's colors have that same shiny quality. The Japanese beetle lives in the ground and once hatched they only live about a month and a half. Japanese beetles love to eat the leaves off of plants, starting at the top of a plant and moving its way down doing severe.There are over three hundred plants that Japanese beetles are known to attack. Here is a condensed listing of popular plants that the Japanese beetle will eat: The Japanese beetle affects all the Japanese maple, the Norway maple, Chestnut trees, and the Gray birch trees. The popular Rose of Sharon, the Flowering crabapple trees, and the Popular trees are even affected by the leaf eating

Japanese beetles. The leaf eating Japanese beetle as well also affects various species in the Grape family and in the Rose family. You will also find that the Japanese beetle will stay away from the Cypress plants, the Junipers, the Arborvitae, the Spruce and the Pine trees and shrubs and even the Forsythia and the Lilacs are safe from the touches of the Japanese beetle. The Horse Chestnut and the Willow are safe from the Japanese beetle just as the Sassafras and the Virginia creeper are safe from the uncontrollable eating of the Japanese beetle.

If you live in a highly concentrated area that is or has been plagued by the Japanese beetle, it is in your best interest to replant with bushes, shrubs, flowers and trees that are resistant and not favored by the Japanese beetle so that you can concentrate on other things in your garden besides this little bug.