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June Bug
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The June bug pinging incessantly off your front porch light is a type of scarab. The Japanese beetle that savages your landscaping? A scarab as well. The enormous rhinoceros beetles of Central and South America are scarabs.

You may be familiar with some of the many different beetle species by their common names: ladybugs, June bugs, weevils, lightning bugs or fireflies, borers, and potato bugs.

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.

Particularly important foods in the Midwest are June bugs, green stinkbugs, and cucumber beetles, all agricultural pests.

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.

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