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Last post 30-07-2012 7:54 AM by Pesty. 3 replies.

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  • 27/07/2012 06:44 PM
    • simone
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    • 10 Jul 2012
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    I have found a large (about the size of a big thumb nail) shiny green beetle which I think is a Japanese beetle in my garden. Is it rare? harmful? a pest? or a good thing to have in the garden? Any one know? I have also found in my greenhouse an orange multi shades kind of flying bug, if I could upload the photo I have taken it would help. Is it possible?

  • 27/07/2012 08:52 PM
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    • sue1002
    • Ipswich, Suffolk
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     Instructions for posting photos can be found here Simone.

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  • 28/07/2012 10:37 AM
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    • simone
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    Thank you, I will have ago

  • 30/07/2012 07:54 AM
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    • Pesty
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    Won't be Japanese beetle (a type of Chafer beetle) which is a North American species and is largley brown with some metallic green areas (the thorax) - we do have a number of similar beetles in the UK. However if it is a chafer and all metallic green it may be the Rose Chafer - lives on decomposing veg matter as larvae (often found in compost heaps) - adult may cause some damage to flowers but not a problem worth worrying about. There are other green beetles and true bugs in the UK.

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