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