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Japanese Beetle Flight on the Rise

We observed significant increases of Japanese beetle adults at half of our tracking sites (Bertie, Edgecombe, Wake, Lee, Montgomery, and Henderson counties) this week. This...

Japanese Beetle Alert

It’s official, Japanese beetle adults are active in North Carolina. We have been tracking these insects for about three weeks through our Insect Pest Tracking...

Japanese Beetles are here!

In between rain showers the last two weeks, Japanese beetles have been spotted flying, mating and consuming plant tissue around North Carolina. Japanese beetles are...

Grub Indicators: Scoliid Wasps

Noticing large (>1/2 in), dark wasps hovering in and around the turf canopy the last few weeks (see video)? It’s likely that they are scoliid...