> That brings back a bit of nostalgia for me. We
> lived in Charlotte, NC from when I was 7 years
> old until I was about 10. We had a couple of
> trees in our front yard there; I don't know what
> type of tree they were, but they had deep-red
> colored leaves, and the Japanese beetles
> loved them. They used to descend about the
> same time each year en masse on those two
> trees. The entire tree would be almost
> completely covered by a big beetle blanket. It
> didn't really bother me that they ate all the
> leaves off those trees. I thought the beetles
> with their shiny rainbow-hued shells were
> neat looking.
>
> Gri"big beetle blanket - HAA!"shny

I just got home from a short trip. First thing, I headed over to the garden to see if the dust had worked on the Japanese beetles. The ground was covered with dead beetles! Now that's what I call a neat looking, shiney, rainbow-hued blanket of beetles.
Howard