I HATE Japanese Beetles!
The Japanese Beetles are taking over my roses. I literally pulled at least 100 of three bushes this evening, with some help from a kind neighbor. There were so many clustered on the new blooms we just cut them off because the blooms were already so damaged. We just pruned the worst spots and dropped the whole flower in the bucket because some blooms had 6 or 7 beetles on them. Those flowers were never coming back anyhow. The silver lining is that I found a few roses on the inside of the bush that were unharmed. This is the worst year I have seen with these beetles.
