I overheard someone in passing say that Japanese beetles were eating all their figs* and while I didn’t go full comic book guy on them it took lots of restraint to mind my business and keep walking

*Japanese beetles are strictly controlled in California, figeater beetles are abundant and were cleaning up their overripe or damaged fruit, figeater beetles cannot go after whole figs

#scarabs #figeaterbeetle #figs #japanesebeetles #socal