This bug and his buddies were flying around my daylily bed - I caught one on a petal but he didn't seem to be eating anything. Some sort o' beetle with a shiny greenish back.
Is this a friend or foe?
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This message was edited Jul 30, 2006 10:16 PM
Y'know. Let me get back to you on that. That is the only site where the photo looks like your beetle. All the others are different, so somebody is wrong!
Looks like a Green June Beetle, but its antennae are wrong.
This message was edited Jul 30, 2006 9:37 PM
I just read that those "fingers" on the antennae can be held tightly together - that would make it look like the antennae in the pictures of a Green June Beetle....Whew!!!
http://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/news/news-images/JuneBug3a.jpg
http://www.ento.vt.edu/Fruitfiles/gjb.html
This message was edited Jul 30, 2006 10:15 PM
ceejaytown, thanks so much - since we don't raise any fruit I think damage would be minimal. I hate to spray the dozen or so that were here because there is also lady bugs and praying mantis in the same bed.
Claire
I'm with you.
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