Please look that these pictures and tell me what kind of beetle this is. I see them when I work on my garden at night with artificial white light. They are attracted to the light and fly around a lot. One picture has a ruler showing and you can see that the one I photographed was just under half an inch. (It got caught in my birdbath.)
KW
June beetles, come out here in the south every summer in varying degrees of "lotta bugs." They lay their eggs in the ground and the larvae become a brown headed grub that eats grass roots and other stuff.
George
Daniel Pr> Please look that these pictures and tell me what kind of beetle this
No, a juvenile Japanese beetle would be a grub. Like most beetles (all beetles?) they emerge as full size adults. At nearly half an inch, it's already bigger than a Japanese beetle. It looks to me like what most people just call June bugs. Their season should be over by now. We have them here in June but I think they are usually around in May for most of their range.
Steve PS I just saw the first 2 Japanese beetles of the season today. Here they come. :-(
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