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Through accidental introductions and subsequent migrations is the way in which the Japanese beetle got into North Carolina. The insect in question (Popillia japonica) is thought to have entered the United States of America before 1912 by way of a shipment of iris bulbs from Japan and to have reached no more than four years later.

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