$#@%&* Japanese Beetles - Democratic Underground

Rocinante

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Sat Jul-26-03 11:36 PM
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$#@%&* Japanese Beetles

The little S***s are ruining our cherry trees and vegetables. I've been spraying them with sevin but they just keep coming. Set up beetle traps but no way that will deal with all of them. I don't want to go super toxic with the poison. Hope some of you guys have some ideas. Thanks.

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Mari333

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Sun Jul-27-03 12:07 AM
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1. sevin! nasty stuff

Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 12:08 AM by Mari333

I just ignore them...bout all you can do, really. (the traps I used once in my gardens actually attracted them, rather then repelled them)..

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Rocinante

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Sun Jul-27-03 12:59 AM
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2. Thanks

but they have already killed two of our trees and I can't afford to ignore them. Same with the veggies, we depend on frozen and canned veggies during the winter. Sevin is the mildest poison I can find (sounds stupid I know), maybe there's something out there less toxic that works. Thanks

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CDY

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Sun Jul-27-03 01:05 AM
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5. Netting

Have you tried any netting? I am not sure if that would work, but it is better than spraying that toxic stuff.

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BiggJawn

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Sun Jul-27-03 01:00 AM
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3. Give the traps to your neighbours....

Tell them to set 'em up in the corner of their yard farthest away from yours.

We have trees here that have had their leaves totally skeletonized!

When I die, if I wind up in something out of a Jack Chick tract standing nekkid in front of The Guy With No Face, there's a few things i wanna ask hime before he pushes the button and drops the trap door under me.
WHY: Cockroaches, cold weather, tornadoes, George Bush, Japanese Beetles, Mosquitos and Ann Coulter amongst other questions.

Oh my! I've just named the Seven Plagues of Murka!

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CDY

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Sun Jul-27-03 01:04 AM
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4. I cannot stand those things

They eat my flowers up every year. I usually just pick them off and kill them. Be careful spraying that crap though; you will kill beneficial insects as well. You could also purchase some praying mantis's if you can find a place in your area that sells them. They will eat them up in a jiffy. I live in NC, and I haven't seen nearly as many this year. Also, do not buy any of those crazy traps that they sell. A neighbor of mine did that a couple of years ago, and it attracted every damned beetle in the state!

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this_side_up

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Sun Jul-27-03 01:10 AM
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6. I think we bought

an awful lot of milky spore and applied it to the ground
3-4 times in one year. It takes a while to spread which
is why we used so much.

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Rocinante

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Sun Jul-27-03 02:41 AM
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8. Thanks everybody

fixing to go to bed and battle the varmits again tommorow, actually today. Cheers.

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Rabrrrrrr

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Sun Jul-27-03 02:40 AM
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7. Take the fake traps

and put them far away from your trees, but close enough that the Jap Beetles can smell 'em, cuz they just can't be trusted.

or else go with the Shrub ideology of prevenitng forest fires by cutting down all the trees...

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