Rose Chafer Bug

The underside of the beetle has a coppery colour and its upper side is.

Rose chafer bug. These beetle like bugs are very common. There is just a single generation of rose chafer beetle every year. Adults are reddish brown 1 3 long with black undersides and wing covers cloaked in thick yellowish hairs. Effective nematodes are available in various garden centers.

It has short antennae that have a series of flat plate or page like segments. Slender pale green to tan in color with reddish brown or orange spiny legs. A rose chafer sometimes resembles a wasp when it s flying. The chubby white grubs attack grass blades from the roots potentially ruining pristine turf.

The japanese beetles live in lawns under similar conditions. Unfortunately they are not friends. Medium sized beetle measuring between 5 16 inch to almost 1 2 inch in length. Rose chafer larvae are equally adept at destroying plant life including grass.

After 3 6 weeks of destruction the infestation will. Both appear to have the same habits and life cycles going from eggs laid in the ground by the mature female beetles hatching out to larvae grubs in the ground and maturing to beetles that attack plants and blooms without mercy. The rose chafer can be identified by its ivory yellow appearance. They can skeletonize the leaves of your plants quickly and thoroughly.

Cetonia aurata called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer is a beetle 20 millimetres 3 4 in long that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct v shaped scutellum the scutellum is the small v shaped area between the wing cases. The larvae are small white grubs. The rose chafer and the japanese beetle are both true villains of the rose bed.