This might help. Integrated Pest Management This lecture is presented in two parts. Each part is 90-minutes in length. Recorded in Sacramento County in California's Sacramento Valley, this lecture is by Mary Louise Flint, Ph.D., Director, IPM Education and Publications, UC Statewide IPM Project and Extension Entomologist & Cooperative Extension Specialist. Education: B.S. Plant Science, University of California, Davis Ph.D. Entomology, University of California, Berkeley Appointment: 100% Cooperative Extension Research Interests: Integrated pest management of landscape, agricultural and garden pests; biological control of arthropod pests; alternatives to pesticides; adoption of alternative practices by practitioners; innovative delivery of pest management information. Topics discussed in the Integrated Pest Management Lecture: * IPM references and resources * Preventing pest problems * Natural common enemies * Making less toxic pesticide choices * Controlling aphids, scales, caterpillars, coddling moths, tree borers, snails and slugs, and lawn insects. You can watch the programs now online: Just make sure you have Real Player installed or download it free. Integrated Pest Management Part1 90 minutes Integrated Pest Management Part 2 90 minutes You'll want to bookmark the following link to Professor Flint's Lab Research on: Controlling Pests in Gardens and Landscapes: Vegetables and Melons I promise you'll learn one or two things to put in your gardening bag of pest management arsenals. ;)

I'm feeling your pain, jimtnc. I have two of those trees in my front yard and I used to see hundreds at a time last year. We used Sevin to really fight the population and we put down milky spore to kill the larvae in our yard. This year, we have seen a decrease in the amount, but they still eat the heck out of those leaves. Because I have created a butterfly garden and bought some ladybugs to control aphids, I decided to not use Sevin on those trees (I have a perennial garden beneath one of them). Instead, my husband and I go out at night/early morning and knock the trees with rakes so the beetles will fall in buckets of soapy water. I have even taking to squishing them with my fingers (with gloves on, of course). They are nasty creatures, and with every one I kill, I know that it's saving me more trouble next year. Good Luck!!

I will eat liver of almost any sort...but I would prefer not to be the one that cooks it. But that is as far as I will go with organ meats. But now that I have read the part about "the liver cleans everything in the system...I like to know what's coursed through my organ meat", I may never eat it again. And this statement also made me rethink how much I love Rocky Mountain Oysters. LOL I will not eat any wild game. I have tried many different game meats...deer, elk, raccoon, bear, possum, duck, rabbit, wild boar...the list goes on. I am just not crazy about that "wild" taste. And it doesn't matter if it's been soaked in milk or whatever else they try to de-wild it with. :) I will also not eat tripe or sea urchin (had one in our salt water aquarium and just can't feature that). *shudder* I won't touch tuna...from a can, raw or otherwise. Tuna from a can looks and smells just like cat food to me. And when we were little, my older sister was responsible for feeding us dinner. She made tuna noodle casserole over and over and over. She was 10 and no one taught her (or any of us) to cook, so she is forgiven. We were even known to have saltine crackers crushed up in a bowl with Kool Aid on them. And most other fish is not appealing to me. Shellfish, however, is another matter. And milk. I will not drink milk. I read once that humans are the only mammal on Earth that drinks milk past the weaning stage. Milk is the one thing that will make me gag should I consider raising a glass to my lips. And watching someone else drink it? Ewwww SHUDDER. However, I will cook with it. Weird...I know. Other than that, I will eat just about anything and will at least try just about anything...once. I am sure I will think of something later that I won't eat. And we were raised by a step dad that forced us to eat everything on our plates. Everything. I never, ever made my kids eat something they didn't want to...and they are great eaters now.

Well I just thought I would try something different. This was just to keep them off of one or two roses which were setting up for a great flush. They will always find something to eat. Here they have also been eating a lot of my service berry leaves, Siberian crabapple & my city street tree, which is a linden. Good luck spreading JB carcass water on larger trees & shrubs, haha! I don't give one iota for fragrance in roses, I go for the appearance & hardiness. But I have found they are selective with the roses. They don't bother with Julia Child (weird cause it's yellow) or Benjamin Britten but a Bull's Eye planted between the two had JB's on it. Someone else mentioned that they liked 4 o'clocks & it poisons them. I don't know about the poison part but they definitely like to eat them. They went after my yellow ones only though. Anyways, the JB juice may be a solution for those few roses that get hit hard in my garden. It seems that there are less of them this week, than last. So if nothing further, I will try again next year during the peak times.