Re: June bugs
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: June bugs
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:36:54 -0700 (MST)
In a message dated 97-02-10 14:40:40 EST, you write:
Bill Shear said
> According to my beetle
>manual, June bugs (Phyllophaga spp.) feed after dark on leaves of trees and
>shrubs.
My goodness - those must be severely deprived June bugs to be out after dark
eating tree leaves. Here, they lift off from the blackberries (if they
aren't too drunk to fly) like a swarm of hornets, in broad, hot, July summer
daylight. Very startling to be deeply entangled in a wild bramble patch and
have a bunch go off all at once. They also go after any other kind of soft
fruit - pears, raspberries..I can't imagine them eating ol' smelly rotten
iris rhizomes. Does Erwinia help decompose fruit?
Linda Mann
east Tennessee USA
