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Preliminary Feeding Assessments For Asiatic Garden Beetle, Maladera Formosae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Grubs And Adults, Adrian J. Pekarcik, Matthew O. Lorentz, C. Scott Clem, Amy L. Raudenbush, David W. Held, Kelley J. Tilmon
Preliminary Feeding Assessments For Asiatic Garden Beetle, Maladera Formosae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Grubs And Adults, Adrian J. Pekarcik, Matthew O. Lorentz, C. Scott Clem, Amy L. Raudenbush, David W. Held, Kelley J. Tilmon
The Great Lakes Entomologist
The Asiatic garden beetle, Maladera formosae (Brenske) (syn. M. castanea [Arrow]), is an annual white grub species that was unintentionally introduced from east Asia to North America in 1921 in New Jersey, and has since spread to at least 25 states and two Canadian provinces. Grub populations in the Great Lakes region have recently emerged as significant early-season pests of field crops, particularly field corn, grown in sandy soils. Asiatic garden beetle has also recently become established in other regions including Alabama. Prior research on this species was conducted mainly in the 1930s in horticultural and turfgrass systems of New …