The life cycle of the dusky sap beetle is about 30 days with three to four generations per year. Some females lay more than 300 eggs and live as long as 147 days. The strawberry sap beetle primarily attacks strawberries. Sap beetles also disseminate organisms that cause rots in the fruits. Some sap beetles bore into the fruit, devour a portion, and lay eggs.
Larval damage is usually only slight and often goes unnoticed.
It is helpful to harvest sweet corn, tomatoes, melons, berries and other produce immediately as soon as they ripen. Remove any damaged, diseased, and overripe fruits and vegetables from the area at regular intervals. The collecting of apples, peaches, melons, tomatoes, and other decomposing fruits and vegetables and by burying deep in the soil or destroying is needed to eliminate beetle food sources. Baits Research has shown that picnic beetles prefer banana, whole wheat bread dough, and muskmelon. As a bait, muskmelon rinds or pineapple scraps, sprinkled with a pesticide, kills the strawberry sap beetle and other scavenger beetles attracted to the fruits and vegetables.