{"id":9444,"date":"2018-05-06T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2018-05-06T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:48:57","slug":"maladera-castanea-asiatic-garden-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/maladera-castanea-asiatic-garden-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"Maladera castanea, Asiatic garden beetles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9445\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180505-Asian-Garden-Beetles-bw.jpg\" alt=\"breakfast buffet for crows\" width=\"1028\" height=\"723\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180505-Asian-Garden-Beetles-bw.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180505-Asian-Garden-Beetles-bw-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180505-Asian-Garden-Beetles-bw-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180505-Asian-Garden-Beetles-bw-1024x720.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/03\/maladera-castanea\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asiatic Garden Beetles<\/a> are back, feeding at night on  tender oak leaves. The AGBs are attracted to electric light. Don&#8217;t swim well. So this tupperware pool, lit from below, attracts about twenty-five beetles per night. The beetles tread water until just after dawn when the crows come and enjoy crunchy breakfast buffet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>A native of Japan and China, where it is not an important pest, the<br \/>\nAsiatic garden beetle (Maladera castanea) was first discovered in<br \/>\nthe United States in New Jersey in 1922. Asiatic garden beetle grubs<br \/>\nfeed off the roots of grasses and weeds in early spring. Adult beetles<br \/>\nattack many different vegetable, herb, fruit, and ornamental plants,<br \/>\nfeeding mostly at night where they strip, shred, and notch the foliage<br \/>\nof their hosts. Asiatic garden beetle damage is especially prevalent<br \/>\naround the leaf margins.&#8211;University of New Hampshire<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A native of Japan and China, where it is not an important pest, the Asiatic garden beetle (Maladera castanea) was first discovered in the United States in New Jersey in 1922. Asiatic garden beetle grubs feed off the roots of grasses and weeds in early spring. Adult beetles attack many different vegetable, herb, fruit, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/maladera-castanea-asiatic-garden-beetles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maladera castanea, Asiatic garden beetles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,17,21,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-fauna","category-slabtown","category-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}