If the leaves on your maples, roses, or ornamental trees suddenly look lacy, like someone traced around the veins and left the rest behind, that's not a random plant problem. It's Japanese beetles working through their late summer feeding cycle across metro Atlanta right now.
These beetles chew leaf tissue between the veins in clusters, and a heavily fed-on tree can lose a noticeable share of its canopy in just a few weeks. Young trees and anything already stressed from summer heat feel the hit hardest.
Our plant health care team can tell you whether the damage on a given tree is cosmetic or a sign the tree needs support heading into fall, and recommend a treatment window that actually works instead of a guess. Visit bouttetree.com to learn more about our PHC program.
Have you noticed lacy or skeleton-like leaf damage on anything in your yard this summer?
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Close-up, authentic photo of a real leaf with visible skeletonizing beetle damage, ideally shot on a recent Boutte Tree job site rather than a stock photo. A wider shot of the beetle cluster itself on the leaf underside would also work well.
Canva text suggestion: "Lacy Leaves? That's Japanese Beetles" or "Skeleton Leaves Mean It's Beetle Season"