My leukemia's back.

[perchie.girl]

Microchick

 

[wyoDreamer]

@microchick
I have been told that "they don't bite, they taste".
We had them really bad a couple of years ago, but not so much lately, thank goodness!

 

[microchick]

Deb!

@wyoDreamer, if you miss them I'd be happy to box up a few thousand and send them to you.

My pleasure!

Like the English Sparrow Japanese beetles were one of those brilliant ideas that went horribly wrong.

 

[bruceha2000]

You going to keep that story going all winter Bruce?

Only until I'm told on the forums that it isn't lint after all

Actually, once I get the yard mowed one more time to pick up all the leaves that blew down on Saturday, i will be OK if we got some of the white stuff. Just not ready for a "lint" storm to accumulate as the vacuum cleaner has not been put on the tractor yet. DH is still putting it together, lol.

Same here. Will mow the lawn when it gets cold enough I have to pack up the hose that goes to the animals automatic waterers. Then it will be time to take the deck off and start setting up for the lint blower.

Could be poultry dust.... my birds are still molting.

Mine too. Some have finished some are just starting, some haven't started yet.

Just those nasty Japanese Beetles.

Are you talking about Japanese Beetles

or Asian Beetles?

Asian on the right, native ladybug on the left.

 

[microchick]

Isn't Japan part of Asia?

 

[microchick]

Geeze bruce I think you Live to find my goofs!

Where ever they come from they can go back. Besides biting. They STINK!

 

[bruceha2000]

No, it is just that this "conversation" has happened before on one of the forums - deja vu!! Soon as you got stink and bite in there I became suspicious that the beetle you were talking about wasn't the one I think of when one mentions Japanese Beetles. Those things are a royal pain in the garden. These little ones are not.

So I will post the same as I have done before - thankfully the asian beetles AKA asian lady bugs up here neither stink nor bite! We tend to get them in the house starting this time of year. DD1 puts something sweet or a drop of milk or something on a small plate when she finds one. We call them her pets. Funny to watch them running around the edge of the plate.

 

[getaclue]

And they do some serious damage to plants.

 

[bruceha2000]

Right, that is why they are a pain in the garden!

@wyoDreamer I forgot to mention I'm happy you have shown up here.

 

[microchick]

They did a whole big write up about the little nasties a couple of years ago in the local newspaper. Don't know how Missouri got to be so blessed but we seem to have more than our fair share of them.

We also have a bug called an emerald tree borer that is another nasty.

Is that 'Japanese Beetle' pictured the same as a June Bug? Sorta kinda looks like a common June bug that we have around here. Or at least a variety of them.