japanese beetleBack in the early 1900, about 1920 the Japanese Beetle found it’s way here to North America where it’s made a home without natural predators, making it tough to control for home gardeners like myself.

Had a reader leave a comment today asking for help with a Japanese Beetle problem. So as usually I headed over to Wikipedia to find some info about them. Check it out for yourself at Japanese Beetle on Wikipedia.

The Japanese Beetle is 10 millimeter or a half inch in length but the make up for size in numbers and hunger. They might be cute and you may want to play with them but remember this. They will strip your plant leaves until they look like skeletons.

Seen The Japanese Beetles Grub

japanese beetle grubI see these grubs when I dig up our flower beds and vegetable gardens. I don’t waste any time with them. I grab them and take them away from the gardens where I quickly put them out of my misery.

That’s guys not eating any more roots in my yard.

Here in New Brunswick, at least at our home, we have been fortunate not to have a huge problem with the Japanese Beetle. I see a few each year, which I just pick off plants and promptly destroy.

I like videos and learn so much faster by example so I went looking and found GardenFork.TV. There’s a bit of playing with dogs going on but the info is helpful and I love dogs. Hope it’s helpful to you and enjoy.

We don’t have a real problem with them and I want to keep it that way so I may put one of those Japanese Beetle traps together and see what we find.

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