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What you very likely have a Green Fig Beetles which are common in
compost piles.  The adult is huge, noisy and brilliant green.  We do
not have Japanese Beetles in the SF Bay Area (yet).  They are much
smaller and duller in appearance.  For further info, you can check
out:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r261300511.html

I've seen both the larvae and the adults of the Green Fig Beetle here
in the Bay Area.

Cheers,
Bracey


bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote in message news:<bearclaw-662B3C.22574925012003@corp.supernews.com>...
> In article <x6n0loefrx.fsf@scoville.wsrcc.com>,
>  Alison Chaiken <alison+gnus20030125T193608@dailyplanet.wsrcc.com> 
>  wrote:
> 
>   > I think you're making this quest more difficult than necessary.
> 
> Howzat? Just trying to figure out what these things are. 
> 
>   > Have you ever seen iridescent fig beetles in your garden?
> 
> No, haven't seen _any_ beetles in our garden at all in the ten-or-so 
> years we've been here. Spiders, yes--some very impressive ones. Moths, 
> yes. But no beetles. And NEVER saw grubs this big before, not anywhere 
> I've lived (NJ, WA, OR, AZ, NC).
> 
>   > Very occasionally we have Japanese beetles which are green, but we 
>   > have no iridescent green beetles.  On the other hand, we do have 
>   > the Common Black Ground Beetle in abundance (Pterostichus species).
> 
> Japanese beetles are pretty bad, according to what I've been reading off 
> google. The other, Ground Beetles; do they have grubs this big?