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.)

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...cropped4zh.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...beetle17ow.jpg

"Daniel Prince" wrote in message
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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.)

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...cropped4zh.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...beetle17ow.jpg

Just a swag, but a juvenile Japanese beetle perhaps?

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 Prince wrote:
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.)

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...cropped4zh.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...beetle17ow.jpg

KW wrote:

"Daniel Prince" wrote in message
...

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.)

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...cropped4zh.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?i...beetle17ow.jpg


Just a swag, but a juvenile Japanese beetle perhaps?

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. :-(