Thanks for the excellent picture of a Japanese beetle, and for the many other great pictures you have provided as well! A couple of years ago, I had a heavy infestation of ladybug-like beetles (except the spots seemed different) on many of my plants. I didn't want to spray an insecticide, but they were obviously devouring all of the leaves (unlike ladybugs, which eat the bad insects, these WERE the bad insects). I spent a few hours online searching for an ID to differentiate between ladybugs and all of their look-alikes, but just ran out of time before I found the culprits, although a preliminary guess was asparagus beetle (and also elm leaf beetles, which seemed much less damaging). read more ...
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