Japanese Beetle

Japanese Beetle
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for a destructive beetle, Popillia japonica, of the scarab beetle family.

Japanese Beetle
The Japanese Beetle is a metallic green color and coppery-brown wings. They can grow to be 1/2 of an inch long as adults. The Japanese beetle is a good flyer and often moves in a swarm from one area of plantlife to another.

Japanese Beetle
Japanese beetles, Popillia japonica, are small, shiny beetles of the family Scarabaeidae ...

Japanese Beetle
Popillia japonica (scientific)
The beetle species Popillia japonica is commonly known as the Japanese beetle.

The Japanese beetle that savages your landscaping? A scarab as well. The enormous rhinoceros beetles of Central and South America are scarabs.

It eats a variety of beetles including cucumber beetles, Japanese beetles, carabid beetles, and June bugs. This bat also catches flying ants, spittle bugs, pomace flies, stinkbugs, and small moths.

Some species such as the Japanese Beetle and many Chafers bother gardeners in other parts of the country, but these Scarabs are not found here in Alberta.

The guinea fowl roam the Zoo grounds looking for tasty insects. One of their favorites is Japanese beetles and a second
is ticks! Their two "hang-outs" are near the Rainforest and in the New England Farmyard.

Japanese beetles, June bugs, slugs, cutworms, ants, potato beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, various other worms, even gypsy moths and fruit tree pest. In 1904, Boston entomologist A. H. Kirkland estimated that a single toad was worth $19.

Its body is a drab green color bordered in yellow or brown from above and bright iridescent green from below. Often confused with the much smaller and destructive Japanese beetle, ...

seem to have two preferred times of foraging, one in the early evening hours and then again just before dawn. Specific prey items include small night-flying insects such as bugs, flying ants, spittle bugs, June beetles, pomace flies, Japanese beetles, ...

See also: Beetle, Scarab, June Bug, Arthropoda, Scarab Beetle