Woe to you, Japanese beetles, for you skeletonize the apple leaves right in front of our faces.
Woe to you, Japanese beetles, for you came across land and sea to make mincemeat of our apple tree.
Woe to you, Japanese beetles, blind to the damage that you do.
Woe to you, Japanese beetles, straining out the leaf veins and swallowing the chlorophyll.
Woe to you, Japanese beetles, for you are shiny and clean, but inside you are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Woe to you, Japanese beetles, for you are outwardly beautiful with your coppery carapace, but within you are just another ugly and devilish bug.
Woe to you, Japanese beetles, for you wantonly shed the leaf blood that would nourish the apples.
Woe to you, Japanese beetles, for you lay eggs that lie in wait over the winter to produce your brood of larvae.
The first written account of Japanese beetles in the United States was in New Jersey in 1916. They were thought to have come into the country with a shipment of iris bulbs. Talk about your wretched teeming masses! Ironically, these gorgeous pests are not very destructive in Japan because of natural predators. What good are natural predators if they let their prey slip out of the country right under their noses? Well, we may not be natural predators, but we’re going to have to find some way to destroy them.
I’ll probably delete this in the morning.
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Haha! I like the picture of the skeleton leaf.
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Our new linden tree leaves look like this. Rick finally sprayed the woe-some beetles.
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What did he spray? Kris sprayed the tree a couple days ago, but it doesn’t seem to have had any effect.
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