If you detect the tell-tale signs of a June bug infestation, such as dead patches of grass or damaged plants, you may have a problem with ground-dwelling June bug larvae. An effective method for helping control June bugs is to make your lawn inhospitable to their larvae. You can help maintain a healthy lawn by overseeding thinned-out areas of your turf. Bed bugs are travelers. Before moving into your mattress or settling down in your nightstand, they may have lived in a hotel, office, school or other place where people gather.
Because bed bugs can attach themselves to clothes, furniture, luggage and even your pets, they can also hitch a ride in your car, rental vehicle, taxi or rideshare. This gives them easy access to anything you transport with you and a free ride to everywhere you go, including your home. But there's a reason why this saying is so old and so well known: bed bugs have been around for a very long time. These pesky insects have recently seen a resurgence in population and now, it's more likely than ever that you or someone you know will eventually deal with some kind of bed bug infestation.
Suddenly, that phrase takes on a whole new significance! No one wants to share their bed with bugs, and this feeling especially applies to the aptly named bed bugs. Bed bugs are small, parasitic insects that feed on our blood while we sleep. The beetle was first noticed in New Jersey in and has since been seen eating plants throughout the eastern half of the country. Adult Japanese beetles feed during the day on tender leaves, ripening fruit and flowers.
They often cluster in groups of 20 or more so that they can devour things quickly. Both the Japanese beetle and june bug lay their eggs under the surface of lawns and grassy areas. The larvae grubs feed on the grass roots until they are forced below the frost line, only to emerge in the summer as adults. Greg McGuire graduated from Butler University in However, Japanese beetles are more efficient at devouring silks in cornfields and the leaves of soy plants, so they are a danger to such cultures.
Talking about things they have in common, it must be mentioned that they prefer to congregate in groups, and they are good at flying. Their larvae, called grubs, are white and grow in the soil of your garden. During July and August, the females will fly low to identify the best places for laying their eggs.
A soil with adequate moisture represents the ideal condition for that to happen. Both June bugs and Japanese beetles need plenty of water for their eggs as they will need a lot of moisture until they hatch and enter their larval stage. In summers with suitable rainfall amounts, beetles can reproduce in large numbers. Although they are both beetles, they are alike only if you throw a superficial look at them. For starters, June bugs are larger than Japanese beetles, at about 1 inch in length; the latter are about one third in size compared to them.
June bugs are green in color, with copper mixed in it, so if you notice little greenish bugs flying around, these are, most likely, the critters invading your garden. However, if you observe beetles with a darker green, copper-like back, those are Japanese beetles.
Their coloring is more metallic, compared to June bugs. They also prefer to swarm in packs of around 20 individuals so they can eat the food they find faster.
Another visual aspect that will help you tell apart Japanese beetles from June bugs is the presence of small tufts of white hair on the sides. They stick out, so it would be impossible for you to miss them. June bugs tend to have a more pointed body shape toward the head, while Japanese beetles have a somewhat rounder shape. Beetles, in general, are considered pests, although not on par with much more invasive species.
The June bug or American Japanese Beetle is a really unwelcome guest. As the name suggests, the Japanese Beetle is originally from Japan. They were first noticed about years ago. Probably from ships carrying foreign trade. While in Japan, they were not considered as much of a pest because they had more natural predators to keep their numbers down. Here, particularly in the eastern United States, the Japanese beetle numbers can be considered to be an infestation. These little June bugs are matured grub worms, who work their way out of the dirt in June to wreak havoc on crops and plants during our summer months.
It is a variety of different beetles that show up around June. They have all kinds of fruit and vegetables they like to consume. They will actually attack the leaves of your plants and eat the tender inside leaving the outline of the leaf behind.
They usually attack a plant in large groups effectively decimating a plant in a short time. One such way to control this pest is to use Japanese Beetle Traps. They use a pheromone scent to fool the beetles into thinking it is a place to mate.
They get trapped in the bag and die. This can be very effective as it will draw a large number of beetles away from your plants.
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