Backyard nature (beetles and a woodchuck)

The U.S. is being overrun by Japanese Beetles. We had a mild winter and it seems there are more beetles than in the past.
My wife picked these off our plants and let them go swimming:

Here’s a glassful. Delicious!

My Golden Retriever was staring into our Redbud tree one day:

Here’s a closer look:

Woodchucks don’t normally climb trees. He might have been chased up there or he liked the seed pods of the Redbud tree. He didn’t say.