The Japanese beetle, an aggressively invasive insect species, has been detected for the first time in France, authorities in the east of the country said Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/09/wildlife/france-japan-beetles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #wildlife #beetles #france #environment
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@thejapantimes apparently it is already widely spreading in Italy. My in-laws have been seeing it for several years now.
Still, it seems not to spread across distances so quickly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_beetle
