Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), close-up photograph. This species originates from Japan but has become a serious pest of plants in the USA. Japan

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Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), close-up photograph. This species originates from Japan but has become a serious pest of plants in the USA. Japanese beetles are members of the Scarabaeidae family of beetles. It has an iridescent shiny green coloured body. Photographed by the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab: an organisation dedicated to identifying, cataloguing and monitoring bees and other insect species.

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Photo credit: © US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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