Okay, let see if I can get through this without my system freezing up again. Like Lon said, call an agent. If they are anything like our foresters here who know everything there is to know about trees/plants/insects, they will be able to identify the beetle and tell you how to save your crop. Janni At 05:51 PM 8/9/01 -0700, you wrote: >Then you have one of the native scarab or June beetle types. Lots of >species of these, so no way to know which one from here. The Japanese >beetles are in >this general group, so they have a resemblence. >---------- > >From: Ron Hay <ronhay@pacbell.net> > >To: gardeners@globalgarden.com > >Subject: Re: [gardeners] Speaking of insects... > >Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2001, 5:19 PM > > > > >No, Lon, I have seen Japanese beetles; but this one is about three times > >the size of any Japanese beetle I have ever seen. > > > > > >Ron > > > > > >