There are these bugs on my flower bushs in my flowers, and they can fly. I think it is a beetle but i don't know what kind it is. And it might not even be a beetle. I did some research on beetles and it looks sorta like a Japanese beetle. It kinds has that bronze mattalic color to it, and it is shaped like a ladybug.(circular).
Can you think what kind of bettle.Or bug i have in my yard ?
- Thank you
2007-07-10 05:17:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
June beetle, they will destroy your plants. You can buy these bags at wal-mart or home depot and what they do is give off the scent of a female june beetle and when they come to investigate they fall in the bag and die, once its full you throw it away and get a fresh bag, they are really bad here in NC they will eat your flowers and crops in no time.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Djune%2Bbeetle%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501%26x%3Dwrt&w=321&h=253&imgurl=www.jdmpics.com%2Fanimals%2Fgreen-june-beetle-1.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jdmpics.com%2Fgreen-june-beetle-1.htm&size=14.9kB&name=green-june-beetle-1.jpg&p=june+beetle&type=jpeg&no=1&tt=6,291&oid=4827f741a6a0ff08&ei=UTF-8
2007-07-10 05:20:55 · answer #1 · answered by Grant S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have Japanese Beetles. You can get rid of them one of two ways.
First, you could use Seven powder on all of the affected plants. This should repel them, but, uses chemicals to do it.
Or, you could create soapy water in a bucket (use something like Dawn or Palmolive) and shake the affected plants so that the beetles fall into the bucket.
Thirdly, you can always purchase a Japanese Beetle trap. It's a yellow and green bag that containes a phermone that attracts the beetles to the bag. They accumulate in the bag by the hundreds, and the bag must be changed every 3-5 days. BUT... the beetles are attracted to this bag, so make sure you place it a good 20 feet from your garden area.
Best of luck, Amy
2007-07-10 12:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are Japanese Beatles and my yard is swarming with them right now. They will defoliage a plant. You can spray them with insecticidal soap, pyola spray, or a chemical spray (look on label to see if they kill this particular beatle). Be careful, some sprays on not safe to use on certain plants. Read the labels. Also, you could buy Japanese Beatle traps. Place them AWAY from your garden. The bags will fill with beatles, and they will die in the bag. Sometimes skunks and other night dwellers rip the bag open to get to the beatles. The beatles are "grubs" in the larvae stage, and can be treated with "Milky Spores", a powder sprinkled onto the ground. Skunks, raccoons and other varmits will dig up your lawn to get to the grubs.
Japanese beatles are not indiginous to the U.S. and have no natural predators, hence their overwhelming numbers.
Image of Japanese beatle:
http://www.cirrusimage.com/Beetles/japanese_beetle_001.jpg
2007-07-10 12:24:52 · answer #3 · answered by Yinzer from Sixburgh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll bet it's Japanese Beetle.. they're out in force in my neighborhood right now. They'll eat fruit trees, flowers, herbs, crepe myrtle and birch trees.. NASTY creatures.
It could be a June bugs, too, but they tend to come out in the evenings whereas Japanese beetles are out all day.
2007-07-10 12:24:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is this your bug?? I have them too their a pain in the a$$ And they do stink..lol
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/hemiptera/stinkbug/brown_stink_bug_nymph.html
2007-07-10 12:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Jennifer♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here, try these for identification comparison.
Japanese beetle:
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/coleoptera/scarabaeidae/japanesebeetle.html
June bug:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26fr%3Dks-ans%26va%3Djune%2Bbugs%26sz%3Dall&w=1200&h=803&imgurl=www.glenwoodnet.com%2Farticles%2F040608%2Fpictures%2FJuneBeetle.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.glenwoodnet.com%2Farticles%2F040608%2F040608comm05.shtml&size=19.4kB&name=JuneBeetle.jpg&p=june+bugs&type=jpeg&no=1&tt=7,048&oid=44799f49e1c65028&ei=ISO-8859-1
Asian lady beetle:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dasian%2Blady%2Bbeetle%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dks-ans%26b%3D21&w=432&h=359&imgurl=www.ent.iastate.edu%2Fimages%2Fcoleoptera%2Flady%2Fasianladybeetlejb.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ent.iastate.edu%2Fimagegal%2Fcoleoptera%2Flady%2Fasianladybeetlejb.html&size=14.9kB&name=asianladybeetlejb.jpg&p=asian+lady+beetle&type=jpeg&no=24&tt=456&oid=aad9a82fb269d8f8&ei=UTF-8
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dcommon%2Bgarden%2Bbeetles%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dks-ans%26b%3D41&w=335&h=293&imgurl=www.extension.umn.edu%2Fprojects%2Fyardandgarden%2FYGLNews%2Fimages%2FAsianladybugs.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.extension.umn.edu%2Fprojects%2Fyardandgarden%2FYGLNews%2FYGLN-Oct0102.html&size=47.7kB&name=Asianladybugs.jpg&p=common+garden+beetles&type=jpeg&no=55&tt=65&oid=8515462b01d810cc&ei=UTF-8
2007-07-10 15:06:20 · answer #6 · answered by Sptfyr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋