Decided to make the post mainly because I'm tired of seeing people argue over this, and also, as a homesteader, know your agriculture energies......
These are beetles. Now I'm my experience everyone likes to call every beetle a Japanese beetle but it's not correct.
In the top picture we have your standard June bug or beetle depending on where you are from. It's scientific name is Phyllophaga spp. Everyone, or at least almost everyone, has seen one of these in Their lifetime, they are pretty common, more so in certain parts of the country than other.
In the bottom left, we have the Green June beetle. These obnoxious suckers are large, heavy and really seem to love to buzz around your head. Most commonly seen in the evening and night. It's scientific name is Cotinis Nitida. I call them chicken food, because if it buzzes around my head and isn't a bee or wasp, it's gonna be chicken food more often than not.....
Which leaves us to the bottom right. The infamous Japanese beetle. These lil shits have gained a ton of notoriety the last few years as we see them more and more ( luckily, I haven't seen any in my area yet) these are the crop destroyers and they come.in by the thousands.. Their scientific name is Popillia Japonica.
They are not one in the same. And while the green and brown June beetles can do damage to crops, they are more obnoxious than detrimental like the Japanese beetle is.
This concluded the entomology lesson for the day.
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