Beetle Plague Ravages Residents of Twente Village: 'Sweep up 100, 200 at a Time'

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Drinking a cup of coffee in the garden is temporarily out of the question for some of the residents of the village of Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk in Twente. The residents are being plagued by the Colorado beetle. "Many people are going crazy because of it," one of the residents tells RTV Oost. The black and yellow-orange beetles are a kind of oversized ladybug and, according to local residents, are causing a significant nuisance. "In the bedro…