Re: Beetles
- Subject: Re: Beetles
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 03:13:00 -0400
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> From: Larry Newton <ldnewton2@home.com>
> So I looked at pictures of Japanese beetles on the web, so what the
heck are
> "June bugs"? That's what I've always thought of as Japanese
beetles. Have
> I been wrong all this time?
Larry, June bugs or June beetles and Japanese beetles are both
beetles (Coleoptera) but Japanese beetles are Popillia japonica
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/ppc/science/pps/images/popjap6.jpg
Whereas the June bugs are one of the several species of scarab
beetles in the subfamily Melolonthinae, genus (Phyllophaga) of
chafers.
http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/024030065ap.html
is the one that flies into my lamps and bumbles around.
The larvae of these beetles does considerable damage to plant roots,
while the adults feed at night on foliage and flowers. Adults are
attracted to lights.
Japanese beetles are day feeders. Both of them have white grubs as
larvae and as far as I know, the grubs even look fairly similar.
I have not read any scientific back up for this observation, but
seems to me Japanese beetles come in groups where I generally only
see individual June bugs...but there are several beetles that are
called June bugs - some are darker than the image link above.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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