Re: Beetles and June bugs
- Subject: Re: Beetles and June bugs
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:02:04 EDT
In a message dated 7/28/01 12:24:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Blee811@aol.com
writes:
<< are really very handsome with multicolored wing covers (carapace?), kind
of
coppery/bluish/greenish. They sit on flowers, flower buds, and leaves,
eating all day, basking in the sun and making babies. June bugs are bigger
>>
A good description and a great science lesson for kids. They are in large
fornicating masses on shrubs they like to eat and of course on any rose they
can find. I have found them eating daylily flowers ths year. It is a light
year for the JB's but here are still quite a few each day. The huge black
beetle called a Junebug is nocturnal. They eat plants but apparently are not
interested in the garden variety. The also eat plant debris.
A Japanese beetle is quite beautiful in the sun with a coppery shiny look.
They are poor flyers and buzz around heavy in flight. They are about the size
of a small jelly bean. You cannot mistake the Japanese beetle, it makes a
lasting impression. Ugh!
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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