Rose Chafer Beetle
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In this video, Nate Walton, PhD, consumer horticulture educator for MSU Extension talks about rose chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus. He discusses their feeding habits, life cycle, and control options for residential gardens. Rose chafer is a beetle in the family Scarabaeidae that can be found on landscape plants in Michigan from about May – June. More information can be found in this article from MSU Extension, “When beige beetles with orange legs start to take over your garden this summer.”
