calsfoundation@cals.org
January 12, 2010
An estimated 35,000 to 40,000 species of insects live in Arkansas, including approximately 10,000 species of beetles. One such beetle is the Japanese beetle, which arrived in the state in the 1990s and is now well established in the northwestern and central areas of the state. It is the most economically damaging pest of landscape and turf plantings in the eastern United States.