WHERE DO JUNE BUGS COME FROM?
Did you notice that there were mighty few June Bugs this year? Most summers, if you stood outdoors near a light, one of those buzz bombs of the insect world would be likely to land on you and crawl up on your neck or in your hair. Ordinarily, if a door or window were left open a few minutes, one or more of them would enter and be heard blundering about the room. Finally one would land with a thud. Then you would hear the scratching of its six pairs of claws and discover a chunky brown beetle about three-quarters of an inch long, with its yellowish wings sticking out untidily from under its shiny wing covers. The June bug, or May beetle, lays a few dozen eggs in June or July, each egg enclosed in a little ball of dirt, in shallow burrows in fields, meadows and lawns. The egg hatches into a white grub that can hardly crawl because of its large abdomen curled under the body. They feed on the roots of grass and other plants, often doing much damage to lawns and crops. In the fall they burr
