Comments on: June Bugs

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:57:14 +0000

This may just be my imagination, but has anyone in the Central Valley area of California noticed that Junebugs are showing up later this year? It is almost September, and I barely saw a few just a week ago or so. I know our world is going all out of whack, but would our insect side of the world be affected so? Just curious…

By: Josie

Josie — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:36:15 +0000

I have a big problem with June Bugs, I hate them with a passion, they eat all my fruit! I found a wonderful way to get rid of them, I cut milk bottles, leaving the handle and the bottom up to the handle, I make a solution of molasses and water and hang the milk bottle with the solution off my fruit trees, the june bugs love it and have a wonderful death drowning in their favorite food, every year I kill thousands of them!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:22:19 +0000

This is one of the coolest subjects ever. Absolutely love the mop story.
One night in Northern Michigan we had a bon-fire, June bugs are common at our bon-fires but this night they were abundant.
I’ve never laughed so much and so hard in all my life. These bugs are the best entertainment ever. All of a sudden someone would jump up and do what I now call the June Bug dance… running in place, arms flailing violently, screeches and screams. Then the person would sit back down. Then another person would start. It wasn’t nearly as funny when it was my turn. What I think is amazing is that we stayed out there. I was very pleased to read on another post that they don’t bite or sting. Maybe now I can keep the flailing under control since I know they won’t bite me. I was told by someone years ago that one clamped on to him and wouldn’t let go and that it was painful…..maybe he just freaked out and thought it was biting him. They do have grippy legs.

By: Kay W

Kay W — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:17:13 +0000

I never realized those nasty brown beetles were June bugs too. Yuck – they really creep me out. I’ve always liked the green ones, though. Our dad used to catch one & tie a long string on its leg, then hand the other end to us. We’d fly it like a kite – until it wrapped us up in the string!
This year has been an especially bad year for the big green June bugs. We have an unidentified tree in our front yard that has thousands of the things clustered on it. They are after the fruits (small pinkish berries), probably due to the amount of water in them since its been a very hot, dry summer.

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:38:50 +0000

I live in the San Joaquin Valley where it reaches over 100 degree heat & come June those ugly little critters are out at every lightbulb at every house or streetlight. I too stay indoors when dusk comes & the heat is intensified…you can hear them buzzzzing everywhere. I go into a complete frantic if I even think one of those creatures has made a landing anywhere on me or even gets near me. I thought I was the only person who goes hysterical when these creatures get near me. I laughed so hard after reading some of these posts. The mop story was the killer…lol. It made my day to know I was not alone.

By: Margie

Margie — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:12:34 +0000

I have a Border Collie/Greyhound lurcher named Oy who loves to scour our yard catching beetles all summer long. This dog will play fetch until he fell over dead if I let him, so when I get bored with the game but he’s still in play mode I put the ball out of sight, point to the yard and tell him, “go eat a beetle!” He will immediately turn around and watch the yard for the tiniest bit of movement. Once he’s caught a beetle in his sights he moves murcurial through the grass like a well trained SWAT team member. In the final seconds before he’s got it he speeds this creep up to a dead on race and I’ve seen him leap higher than the fence (though he never jumps the fence itself) to snatch one mid-air. He’s usually content to eat Japanese and June beetles until well after sunset, when I have to tell him, “all good puppies go to bed!” The best time was once when I witnessed him jump a good four feet high from a quiet nap on the porch to kill one that was buzzing by his ear. For those of you who can’t have chickens or other such creatures to scratch up the beetles, I hope you find a dog like Oy. I adopted him from the pound as a pup the day before he was scheduled to be dispatched due to over-crowding. If ridding the yard of bugs is how he repays me, I’ll take it!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:49:45 +0000

I LOVE JUNE BUGGIES! I love to hold a big one in my closed fist as it buzzes and scares everybody…LOL! HOWEVER…now I think I know why my yard looks like chit!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:15:01 +0000

Chris,
That is one of the FUNNIEST stories I’ve ever heard!! Sounds like something I would do (asides from going out and grabbing the mop in the first place). I do not care for June bugs at all!!!! So, if I see one or some- I run the other way! I especially hate the, what I call “King June Bugs” with the huge antennas, I will squeal like a sissy girl! Cewdos to your wife! The mop could’ve flown away!

By: hab

hab — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:16:46 +0000

@Ashley 79, “Can u tell if they’re boys or girls??answer here…You tell them apart by_____________________________.” Yes you can tell. You will need two or more to do this. You can tell them apart by squishing them hard with your foot (preferably wear a shoe). The louder the crackling sound, the more masculine it is!

By: Tammy & Rick

Tammy & Rick — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:43:50 +0000

Reading all of these posts made our day. Still laughing our butts off. My goodness, between the games of bats and beetles and the “crazy” people whipping their hair around like the kids now-a-days do in their dance moves, we’re in stitches! Thought we were being invaded this evening by 1000s of at first unknown swarms of ‘invaders’. Alas, we caught the little suckers with the swimming pool net, anesthetized the little buggers permanently with brake parts cleaner (works instantly and dries with no messy residue). Thanks to the web, we’re thoroughly versed on these little buzzing pests. They may not bite or sting, but we think they should all die!! (Sorry to all you environmental greenies).