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Japanese beetles eat more than 300 types of vegetation

Andrea Johnson
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022 Updated Mar 13, 2022

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Japanese Beetle, August 2019 Wisconsin rest stop

On our cover: Japanese beetle at Wisconsin rest stop – August 2019. Photo by Andrea Johnson.

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Emily Althoff, University of Missouri, Japanese beetle research

Emily Althoff, Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota, College of Forestry

Minnesota Japanese beetle sightings. Legend of map: blue – abundant; red – confirmed; yellow – reported; and gray – not reported.

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