Rose Chafer Bug

A rose chafer sometimes resembles a wasp when it s flying.

Rose chafer bug.

Unfortunately they are not friends. Nematodes are specially designed for controlling all kinds of white grub including rose chafer beetle. The rose chafer and the japanese beetle are both true villains of the rose bed. The larvae are small white grubs.

Both appear to have the same habits and life cycles going from eggs laid in the ground by the mature female beetles hatching out to larvae grubs in the ground and maturing to beetles that attack plants and blooms without mercy. Rose chafer larvae are equally adept at destroying plant life including grass. Effective nematodes are available in various garden centers. The japanese beetles live in lawns under similar conditions.

The chubby white grubs attack grass blades from the roots potentially ruining pristine turf. The underside of the beetle has a coppery colour and its upper side is. It has short antennae that have a series of flat plate or page like segments. Adults are reddish brown 1 3 long with black undersides and wing covers cloaked in thick yellowish hairs.

Slender pale green to tan in color with reddish brown or orange spiny legs. They can skeletonize the leaves of your plants quickly and thoroughly. The rose chafer can be identified by its ivory yellow appearance. These beetle like bugs are very common.

There is just a single generation of rose chafer beetle every year. Medium sized beetle measuring between 5 16 inch to almost 1 2 inch in length. Cetonia aurata called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer is a beetle 20 millimetres 3 4 in long that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct v shaped scutellum the scutellum is the small v shaped area between the wing cases.