Life cycle of the rose killer (beetle)
Last summer 2006 I came home from work on a hot sunny day and noticed
1000s (seriously unbelievable) of beatles hovering/flying/sitting...in
my 3 acre yard. Sorry environmentalists but I got my spray pump and
good ol' "Sevin" and starting terminating NUMEROUS beetles...no joke
they were so bad that it seriously sounded like rain from the beetles
falling out of a tree I sprayed. Ok here is the point/question.....
Since these beetles apparently just came up from the ground (that many
I would have noticed if they came out days before)... did I simply
just kill 1000 beetles OR did I interrupt the reproductive cycle and
therefore hopefully not as many this year. I'm hoping since they
apparently just turned from a grub to a beetle that I killed them
before they could "get it on" with each other and produce more for
this season 2007.
Thanks.
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