Battling Beetles in Woodbury
Have you run into those pesky Japanese beetles in your yard?
The leaves on your trees not looking as lush as they should? Japanese beetles have been spotted in the Twin Cities, including Woodbury. "They will feed on the leaves... they feed between the veins, a kind of feeding called 'skeletonizing.' They also feed on flower blossoms," University of Minnesota Entomologist Jeffrey Hahn told KARE 11. "They start coming out, basically, the first week of July. So, think of the Fourth of July when Japanese beetles will come out and then they are active for the rest of the summer. I mean, we will see them into September." Last summer, Woodbury resident Lisa Thor, who lives in the city’s Highland Heights neighborhood, said she noticed the bugs when she put out her flowering annuals. “I think I was finally …
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Kris Janisch
10:17 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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