Japanese Beetle on Apple
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Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) adults are 3/8 inch long metallic green beetles with copper-brown wing covers and five small white tufts of hair projecting from under wing covers at the tip of the abdomen. Mature larvae are crescent-shaped grubs about 1 inch long with a brown head and grayish-black end. The pattern of hairs on the last body segment (raster) form a V-shape near the anal opening.
Japanese beetle grub.
(Photo: Ricardo Bessin, University of Kentucky)
Japanese beetle adults.
(Photo: Ricardo Bessin, University of Kentucky)
Management:
- Insecticide should target adults as needed
