Anyone Have Experience With These Pests? They Stress The Same Area of My Lawn Every Year.

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Stiffwrists

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When it gets hot, this corner of my lawn always almost dies and these beetles emerge from the area. I have it treated for grubs each year (at least my lawn care company says they treat it) Anyone have any suggestions on what the best way to kill them is? Or what they even are? They are quite a pretty beetle and will even hiss at you if you pick them up! I'd rather they would leave my lawn alone though. Any information would be appreciated!

 

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I am not near Utah but that looks and sounds like a Ten-Lined June Beetle native to the western states...

https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Ten-Lined-June-Beetle

 

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Hamill said:

I am not near Utah but that looks and sounds like a Ten-Lined June Beetle native to the western states...

https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Ten-Lined-June-Beetle

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That's the one! Now I need to research getting rid of them.

 

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Stiffwrists said:

That's the one! Now I need to research getting rid of them.

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Was there a tree in that corner of the yard once upon a time? It sounds like they feast on the roots of trees.

 

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Hamill said:

Was there a tree in that corner of the yard once upon a time? It sounds like they feast on the roots of trees.

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No tree was ever there. But their damage is always confined to that particular part of the lawn.

 

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I know that with Japanese Beetle larvae, there is some sort of nematode you can put in the soil that attacks them. You can check to see if that would work on the larvae of these, too. The larvae are what kills the plants by attacking the roots.

-- Tom

 

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Those are Protected Specie! They are the 'Striped Back Lawn Darter! In Wisconsin they call them 13 lined Ground Squirrels....