Japanese beetle eradication

Here's Andrea Thompson, plant industry administrator for the ISDA. Speaker2: Japanese beetle is a little beetle about the size of your pinky. Its brilliant green color with a copper head to it. And it's not native to the United States. It has the potential to impact turf and landscapes, but also agriculture. It has the ability to eat as an adult your roses, your Japanese maples, your apples, grapes, hops, any kind of agricultural commodity that we like. They like to. And it's really a pest that has no known predator here in the United States and can devastate our ability to produce food, but also just enjoy our landscapes. Treatment is just a granule. It is applied to the grass, and once it's watered in, it's safe for kids and pets and help to have a healthy green lawn. Speaker1: This from a Caldwell resident I've. Speaker3: Seen issues on Nextdoor and Facebook about people that are hesitant to this application. There's nothing wrong with this application. It's a safe pesticide. I wouldn't hesitate at all for them to do it on my yard. What they're doing just enhances what Department of AG does all the time. Speaker2: Homeowners are critical because this little beetle serves the most of its juvenile life in the grass. Homeowners play a huge part in allowing us to perform a treatment that they would normally be doing for billbug control, homeowners get involved.