(KJCT) - We received an email shortly after airing our first story on the Japanese beetle infestation. A viewer was concerned that a local nursery had something to do with the outbreak. A map of ...

They're very difficult and costly to control. What does the Japanese beetle look like? Japanese beetles have shiny, metallic green bodies and six legs. Adults are about 1/2 inch long.

It's nice to stop and smell the flowers, especially ones you planted. However, if you grow this variety, Japanese beetles may ...

Any other plant, plant part, or article that presents a hazard of spreading Japanese beetle due to either infestation or exposure ... a real-time detection map that growers can use to determine ...

One of the telltale signs of a Japanese beetle infestation is skeletonized leaves. The insects feed on the areas between major veins, which give the leaves a lacy or skeleton-like appearance.

Several weeks earlier, invasive Japanese beetles had emerged in droves everywhere in Grandview, a town in central Washington’s Yakima Valley. The infestation had since quieted, but she still ...

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, efforts to control Japanese beetle infestations in the U.S. are estimated to cost more than $460 million a year. You may like Ditch the ...

Daniel anticipates the efforts to take a little less than the last time Mesa County experienced a Japanese Beetle infestation in the early 2000′s. In 2025, the county plans to expand its ...

A year after a few Japanese beetles were found in Pasco, the infestation of the highly destructive insects appears to have grown significantly. More than 400 of the insects that can devastate ...

“This is obviously a huge issue, and we’re seeing this infestation unfold in real time,” Camilo Acosta, Japanese beetle eradication project coordinator for the Department of ...