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Re: A June Bug???! Cicada?????

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At 04:49 PM 3/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>About June bugs and cicadas: as someone else mentioned, June bugs (like
>all beetles) have a full four-stage life cycle, with egg, larva, pupa,
>and adult, none of which look anything like any of the others.

Ah, yes, but IS Katherine's insect a June bug or a cicada? Do we know?
That's what she was asking, primarily. First identify, then decide what to
do about it, if anything.

My primary question when I read Katherine's post was would a June bug, or
any other kind of beetle (or even a cicada) be hibernating in the soil in
the ADULT stage at this time of the year? Perhaps so, I don't know, but it
seems unlikely to me (who is woefully short on entymology, tho some better
at etymology <g>).  I'd have thought you'd find them in grub stage in
mid-March.

I'd say this is another great way one's local county extension agent could
be of help. Katherine might be able to describe the insect over the phone,
or perhaps bundle a few in bubble wrap and whisk them off USPS. Or take
them by in person and and leave with an armload of publications. <g>

Patricia
West Georgia, Zone 7b
whose compost and garden soil are yielding the occasional truly ugly grub
(friend or foe? Wish I knew what a Japanese bettle grub looks like for
sure). They get tossed into the next door neighbor's pasture, to fend for
themselves. Oh shoot -- I should be sharing them with the CHICKENS! Duh!
Well, I certainly will hereafter.


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