Solution: Shiny beetle disliked by fruit growers - NYT Crossword

I just took a class in “Pests of Northeast landscape plants,” but the fruit these guys prey on is sort of tender, so we didn’t cover the FIGEATER beetle — it’s a scarab, like the Japanese beetle, with a flashy iridescent underside and what’s lyrically described as a “velvet” green top. They’re native to the Southwest, where they eat cactus fruit and grapes as well, and they’ll probably bumble up here sooner or later. Good luck eating my figs, beetle, because they’re as small and hard as marbles, always, even though I keep trying.