As a gardener, nothing is more frustrating than walking outside and finding your lovingly tended plants riddled with holes, leaves stripped down to the veins, and flowers reduced to petals scattered on the ground. And if you notice the culprits—shiny…

It started with just a few sightings of the metallic green menaces swarming my prized rosebushes. But soon, I faced a full-scale invasion with swarms of Japanese beetles skeletonizing leaves and decimating flowers across my backyard garden. These determined pests…