If you mean Green June beetles, we get them here. Remember the series, "The Incredible Hulk"? Same thing. These critters are overgrown and painted green. Around here they go for very ripe peaches, and blackberries. If peaches are picked "firm ripe", they won't attack them. The peaches can then be left on the counter for a couple days to soften and sweeten. Another solution is to keep the trees sprayed with carbaryl, as harvest approaches. It seems to either keep them chased off, or kills them. It has a 3 day PHI. If you're an organic Californian, obviously this option won't work for you.

Okay, I'm less bugged out now- no pun intended! last night I woke up out of a dead sleep to my cat freaking out- and this loud whirring in the dark. i heard the thunkthunkthunk of this thing hitting my walls and windows and upon sitting up to inspect the sound, the unidentified and unseen thing flew into my long and sleep-knotted hair causing me to scream like a little girl and run around the room frantic! it was in my hair for damn near a full minute until i got it out!!! What was that thing? My boyfriend, now awake- hid under the covers while i carried on...Was that a small bat? some sort of bird?... I turned on the light to find this beetle- almost an inch long- same description as above! Light green- gold hues... It was pretty- beautiful even- even at 1:30 a.m.... Still, strange and disruptive!! Needless to say, after i got my attacker outside, sleep was restless wondering- How the hell did that thing get in here? and- Are beetles mutating into GIANT almost bird-like creatures? ha!

I think it was in either 10 or 11 that I bought 9 Japanese beetle traps right before we took a week's vacation to California. When we returned they were all full, each holding almost a gallon of beetles. I learned that we had lured beetles from a mile's radius all around us. But that was OK because we live surrounded by almost 100 acres of pasture land and that's where they like to lay their egg. And there is no way to treat that much ground. The next year I was able to buy just the replacement lures. I cut part of the top off a milk jug, leaving the handle and part of the threads. I carefully threaded the bait into the jug with two fingers and pressed the sticky tape against the wall of the jug. You have to open the jug enough to get your fingers into it, but not enough so the beetles can get back out. (They don't usually try to come UP once they are down.) I poked a couple small holes in the bottom for drainage in case rainwater got in and hung the traps on fences and from low tree branches. They worked very well. You can also buy Japanese beetle traps at farm supply stores. Atwoods may have them. We still have beetles, but not nearly as many as in years past. I hung one trap this year and it is less than 1/2 full. We have also handpicked a couple hundred, throwing them into soapy water. BUT if what you have is actually Green June Beetles, the traps may not work anyway. (June beetles are twice the size of Japanese beetles and all green where Japanese beetles are green and bronze.) We have them (June beetles) as we always have had, but not in any large number.

They may be Cotinis mutabilis, also called figeater beetles, June bugs (different than Phyllophaga June bugs), or green fruit beetles. According to Wikipedia, adults "feed on very ripe, over ripe, or soft fruits, such as figs, or peaches" and larvae eat "decaying organic matter such as compost piles and also burrow into turf and feed on the roots of grass." Do you have a compost pile or fruit laying around? Here is a link that might be useful: Wikipedia article on figeater beatle