What damage does the Japanese beetle do?
A horde of Japanese beetles can devour all the leaves on a tree and eat up all the greenery in a vegetable garden, chew holes in all the flower petals and their grubs can ruin all the roots of a grassy lawn. Just imagine the harm these greedy bugs can do to our leafy parks and wide fields of growing crops. A Japanese beetle is only about half an inch long. He is a wide insect with a hard, glossy green head and glossy greenish brown wings. When gobbling his food, he keeps his top pair of hard wings neatly folded down his back. But around the edges you can see that his body is marked with a row of 12 little white buttons. He arrives in the middle of summer and, sad to say, the greedy gobbler never comes alone. He is almost sure to bring an invading army of his friends and relatives, all of them as greedily hungry as himself. They live on vegetable food and almost any kind of greenery tastes good to them. Experts say that Japanese beetles attack almost 300 different plants. Sometimes they
