Im taking heavy losses from a new green beetle that is like the japanese beetle but seems to attack fruit still on the tree that shows no damage! Im assuming its the beetle mentioned on another thread How to kill this kind of beetles? Wish i had lures for them! Im killing lots of japanese beetles! They are drawn to clapps favorite and harrow delight but passing up others. Keep in mind these pears are not ripe! The trap is desimating most of the japanese beetles ( kill rate is in the thousands). These guys no doubt can be killed with carbyl but right now im observing their weaknesses which are few. I think they may be worse than japanese beetles. They dig in pears and cause a rot and bad oder as they eat their was through all the flesh. The left over pear is only brown strings and a stem! At least thry eat the entire pear. Clearly like japanese beetles where one feeds there are others so im thinking that like jb is their weakness to be trapped. @LarryGene any idea why we are seeing drastic increases in their numbers?
Dont worry about my pear crop to much! Trees are loaded with fruit! I needed to thin a few anyway but they mostly are hitting the wrong trees that dont need thinned! The real mystery is why are they not touching my small yellow pear that has some ripe fruit? Very interesting things im observing! @LarryGene thank you for pointing out the differences of these beetles feeding right a long side japanese beetles! All instances where i find one i find the other beetle. These are a new invadar at my farm. If others have the problem i think we should start a new thread on them.
I think numbers have increased due to a smaller mole population this year. Here is a little about green june beetles Green June Beetles