[CH] copper beetles

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Fellow ChDs,
Anyone else finding copper colored beetles out there chewing on their chile 
plants?  These suckers look just like Japanese beetles but for the color.  
I've never seen them at "raised bed-ville" before this year and I've been 
gardening in New England for 40 years.
These little monsters hide in the ground at the base of chile plants by day 
(I found them when I surreptitiously flooded the roots of my drought plagued 
plants) and chomp away merrily by night.  Beyond squishing them between my 
fingers, I haven't resorted to any thermonuclear strategies - yet.
Any suggestions?
Gareth the ChileKnight
tilting at windmills and beetles

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