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Department of Agriculture lists some ornamentals and their likelihood of attack by Japanese beetles

Published: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 9:36 a.m. MDT
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Utah Department of Agriculture and Food recommends that residents, when planting, avoid ornamentals that are severely attacked by adult Japanese beetles.

Severely attacked by Japanese beetles:

American chestnut

American elm

American linden

American mountain ash

Apple

Black cherry

Black walnut

Cherry

Flowering crab-apple

Grapes

Gray birch

Hollyhock

Horse chestnut

Norway Maple

Plum

Roses

Less likely to be attacked by Japanese beetles

American elder

Arborvitae

Black oak

Box elder

Common lilac

Euonymus (all species)

Fir

Green ash

Hemlock

Holly (all species)

Juniper

Pine

Red maple

Red oak

Rhododendron

Scarlet oak

Silver maple

Spruce

White ash

White oak

White poplar

Yew


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Source: State of Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Web site www.ag.utah.gov/pressrel/JBControlMethods.html

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