Japanese Beetle

This year, as in year’s past, the Washington State Department of Agriculture will deploy thousands of traps to monitor for Japanese beetle adults.  While the program traps around nurseries and farms throughout the state, most traps are placed at pathways like airports, railways, or transfer stations.  The Departmen...

The invasive Japanese Beetle is thought to have first arrived in America - in 1916, on the East Coast. Four years later, in 2020, The first Japanese Beetles were discovered in the state - in a Sunnyside, Washington Parking lot. Their presence in Washington is a big threat to cherries, hops, grapes, and roses...