Japanese Beetles!!!
Annie z7 VA
3 years ago
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3 years agoSheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
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Has anyone seen this beetle mixed in with your japanese beetles?
Comments (16)I don't think the giant japanese beetles are actually Japanese Beetles. I think, like a lot of insects, all Japanese Beetles are more or less the same size. THere are many, many species of beetles, and most are more or less harmless. One nice thing about the large, night-flying beetles is that they are an important food for large, noctunal predators like Whip-poor-wills and Screech Owls (screech owls eat lots of insects in the summer)...See MoreJapanese Beetles vs. Cucumber Beetles
Comments (12)Hi All! I have several raised beds and one has Canna and Four O'clocks. When the Jap' beetles arrived just over a week ago I began picking them off. At first first there were only 5 or 10. Then last weekend the amounts began to grow slightly. It was the first real beetle infestation I've had since we moved here 4 years ago. I had a metal Jap' beetle catcher from way back, along with a can of scent. I hung it in the middle of the bed on Monday eve. On Tuesday morning before leaving for out of town, I went to check to see if it was catching. I couldn't believe it. Without to much exaggeration there must have been 500 in the small 4 X 8 area. The pungent scent on Tuesdas hot humid morning must have drawn them to the catcher, with a quick stopover to the plants, from all of my neighborhood, and there was only 1 or 2 inside the catcher. Boy what a screw up that was. Well it's taken me almost a week of picking and drowning to get it under control. I began culling off all the hundreds of leaves they destroyed over the weekend. I had 1 beautiful Hollyhock in the bed that I left that came up from seed. All that's left are the Maroon blooms. I'm going to leave it to see how resilient a plant can be. Last year we had a Maple tree that was infested with the small inch caterpillar and I swear I was going to cut the tree down as we couldn't even use the hot-tub because of the droppings. I'm not that heartless so I'm leaving the Hollyhock as is because I swear the tree has come back stronger than ever. Of course the Holly won't have that chance for next year. But isn't Nature amazing? Jim...See MoreCherry tree that is resistant to Japanese beetles?
Comments (8)In my yard in east Tennessee I found that the Japanese beetles feast upon my Montmorency and Lutowka Rose sour cherry (from Poland) trees, but the newer hybrid Carmine Jewel and Romance series sour cherry trees developed by the University of Saskatchewan, including Carmine Jewel, Romeo, and Juliet get pretty much left alone. But maybe that's because the beetles become full from eating the leaves from the straight Prunus cerasus trees. But it could be that the Romance series trees inherited some resistance genes from the Prunus fruiticosa (Mongolian cherry) parent....See MoreKaolin clay (Surround WP) on roses to deter Japanese Beetles
Comments (25)Most of the summer we have had drought. The hard ground lessens Japanese beetle #s, as they cannot get out of the ground from the grub stage, and they cannot easily get back in the ground to lay eggs. We had rain twice or so about one week ago. The grass greened up, and while we have some J-beetles, we have very few. I am spot spraying them with Bayer Rose and Flower Insect spray which has IMIDACLOPRID. By spot spray, I mean I only spray individual beetles, and it only takes a drop. I consider it a contact spray, but I notice if a new beetle alights on the same bloom, the new one which I didn't spray is often having convulsions when I take another look at night after work. It is not just the spot spraying that keeps #s at bay, it is the drought -- I do not see damage to my linden tree this year which attracts J-Beetles in the thousands. I purchased BeetleJus to apply on my roses this year,which is an organic, but with so few Japanese beetles, I haven't sprayed it yet; I don't want to waste it when there are so few beetles and I would be unable to guage its effectiveness....See Moretotoro z7b Md
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