If you ever deal with weird disgusting grubs in your soil when you're digging up and maybe

changing plants out in a bed, I certainly know I've dealt with this.

I actually thought it was one of the pests in today's podcast title.

Turns out it might not be.

I might be dealing with June bugs.

We have Brad back on the podcast from Minnesota Gardening.

Brad, you've identified these two pests you wanted to speak about today, the emerald ash

for and Japanese meals, which I assume of course are both pests that you struggle with

out there in Minnesota.

Yeah, definitely.

We have a couple of, and I wanted to highlight these two and another one in the next episode

as well that are things that are emerging pests that are causing quite a bit of damage

all through the upper Midwest, and one is emerald ash for, and the second one is Japanese

beetles, and both of their ranges are expanding a lot and they're causing significant problems.

Yeah.

So can we break down the emerald ash for first?

Yeah, for sure.

So emerald ash for is a really terrible invasive, it's a flying insect, but it's the larvae

that cause the problems, and so they dig underneath of the bark, and they ruin the circulatory

system of the, and it's specifically ash trees, and so they are, if you have like Dutch

Elm disease, if you, I'm assuming that everybody across the nation is familiar with Dutch

Elm disease, but I'm thinking the biggest assumption there, but it's just, they wiped out

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