The past few days I had noticed the leaves of my larger fig trees were being eaten. All the leaf except for the veins. So I did a search on here and Jon said to go out after 9pm & look at the trees (in a previous thread). So I did.

I was sooo totally shocked to see my poor babies being eaten by about 40 june bugs!! I just scooped them all off into a ziploc bag, & zipped it up. My chickens will definitely have a little feast in the morning :)

Is there anything I can do/spray to keep them off? I thought they were only around lighted areas. Guess not....

That's horrible! I didn't know June bugs liked figs. The june bugs at my house don't know it either and I'm hoping they don't figure it out!

From a tip on Yahoo:

It was truly awful to shine the flashlight on the trees and see all these beady eyes looking back at me, hanging on beautiful, fat green fig leaves munching away. Kinda creepy too! I tried to get a pic but it came out too dark.

you mean little green beetles that like to eat japanese maple leaves and everything on the rose bushes? they typically leave my figs alone... then again they have japanese maple and roses to play with. usually, we manually collect them and kill each one of them individually. my .45 is too big for their head, so i just step one them. i'm sure if I shot them like i want to, my neighbors will freak out.

look for milky spore. when your yard is treated with it, it will kill the japanese beetle/june bug grubs. but won't touch the adult beetles.

So glad I could cover my tracks by placing a few beetles on your trees.  Those leaves were delicious.

I noticed my freshly planted Artichokes were being eaten just like that... leaving behind the skeleton of the leaves...now I have to go check outside fore those...ugh.

how about those ultraviolet shock lights that have a cage like boxed around them... can that be used to kill them or any other night flies?

Pete, June bugs are light brown... the metallic green ones are May bugs.

i guess the chickens will be enjoying high protein snacks in the morning for a bit :)

I guess so Pete! And here I was worried about the chickens destroying the figs. 

Grandevo is supposed to be a broad spectrum organic pesticide available in the (not sure about for home owners though).  You can also try applying nematodes in the soil in your yard at the right time to attack the larvae to keep their numbers down for their next cycle and coming years.  You might try installing some bat boxes around your yard to give bats a place to roost and they will eat a bunch of beetles/bugs while they are flying at night.

Hi,
I thought may bugs -brown ones- couldn't eat as they come out of the dirt at end of the day and are dead at sun rise - their larvae do, but they feed on roots.
As for june bugs - the green ones - they are pollinators. I have those lasts and they are an ugly pain in the middle of the beautiful flowers/roses but not a threat to my knowledge at least.
Just to say, your culprit is still outside ... Good hunt ! I would look for caterpillars.

Yesterday I watered my Dalmatie tree1 when the dirt did suddenly collapse ! haaaaaargh what a nightmare ! I'm again at chasing rodents ... What plagues they are !
I checked the tree and for now the rodent's highway was passing on the right side only. I baited the beast !

Feed your chickens romaine lettuce, spinach and Swiss chard.  When the yolks turn orange they will be 10x better tasting.

The brown ones definitely eat. I just took another 15 off! I'm wondering if during the day they go into the soil to hide till nightfall again. I knew I hated those bugs for a reason.

My chickens free range and also eat all our scraps. I think its so cool when you crack an egg from the store next to free range/home grown eggs. Those bright orange yolks! You can definitely tell the difference not only by sight but by taste also. Only advice I have is don't make boiled eggs out of turkey eggs! YUCK! They are good scrambled or fried but NOT as boiled eggs. The texture is not appealing at all.

And thank you for all the wonderful replies and advice. Great conversation going on :)