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The Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) is a species of scarab beetle. Due to the presence of natural predators , the Japanese beetle is not considered a pest in its native Japan, but in North America and some regions of Europe, it is a noted pest to roughly 300 species of plants.
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia. Common names in English include big blue lilyturf , lilyturf , border grass , and monkey grass . This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
Liriope are usually used in the garden for their evergreen foliage as a groundcover. Some species, e.g., L. spicata, grow aggressively in the right conditions, spreading by runners; hence their nickname, "creeping lilyturf". In the southeastern United States Liriope is sometimes referred to by the common name monkey grass or spider grass.
The metallic green beetles can damage more than 300 types of “ornamental, horticultural, agricultural and native plants,” Sacramento County said. Invasive beetles found in Sacramento area pose ...
Japanese beetles have been found in Washington along about 65 miles of the Interstate 82 corridor, mostly in Yakima County and the western edge of Benton County. Japanese beetles feed on about 300 ...
Liriope tetraphylla has marginal tentacles, a manubrium, and gonads that are all green or rose-red in colour. It has a nearly hemispherical umbrella which is normally 10 to 30 mm wide. It has a nearly hemispherical umbrella which is normally 10 to 30 mm wide.
Liriope spicata is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plant from East Asia. Common names include creeping lilyturf, [1] creeping liriope, lilyturf, and monkey grass. This perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and is commonly used in landscaping in temperate climates as groundcover. Creeping lilyturf has white to lavender flowers which ...
Groundcover of Vinca major. Groundcover or ground cover is any plant that grows low over an area of ground, which protects the topsoil from erosion and drought.In a terrestrial ecosystem, the ground cover forms the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer known as the herbaceous layer, and provides habitats and concealments for (especially fossorial) terrestrial fauna.