We had a lot of Japanese Green Beetles a in 2014. They did eat on the tomato plants and tomatoes - along with seemingly everything else. One of the places I would see them in groups was the underside of lumber and fallen tree branches. I don't know if you have the green ones or not? But for me being able to find them in groups made it easier to lessen the herd so-to-speak. I squashed them, and haven't seen many of them since that year.
2014 was a drought year. I don't know if that had anything to do with their population or not? The next year was our wettest year on record by far, and that might have had some to do with their decline.
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