Japanese beetles

[admin]

We have Japanese Beetles here and I hate them! They're almost decimated a maple bush we have in our front landscape and it's trying hard to hang onto life.

We bought some granules to put in the lawn to kill them, but I think we need to remove the bush to fully eliminate them.

That’s really frustrating—Japanese beetles can do a lot of damage quickly. You might try removing them by hand or using neem oil before deciding to remove the whole bush. Hopefully it can still recover with some care.