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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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 Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 06:34:16 AM
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OK, time to bring out the big guns. I had to get some bug killer yesterday. Japanese beetles are eating everything in sight. I had them last year and they did some devastating damage. I tried all the natural ways to rid myself of them, to no avail. First all the storms, rabbits, crows and now this! Help, anyone have any good advice other than chemicals?
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
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sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 07:14:59 AM
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i dont use chemicals but there is a bacteria you can buy from gardens alive for them. they eat get sick die non toxic to humans. i dont use chemicals. there are other sprays also. just a thought happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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LakeOntarioFarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
933 Posts
Brenda
North Rose
NY
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2010 : 04:02:23 AM
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Diane- get some chickens! Seriously the jb will lay their eggs in the late summer as grubs in the lawn, if you don't get rid of them before that point it is too late for next year. The chickens will dig and get all the grubs for you.
Ok- so don't buy the bag killers, they just draw the jb to your yard, then you'll have more of them. I have read that the best thing to do is to go out every morning and evening and brush them off leaves into a bucket of soapy water. Oh and spread some diatomaceous earth in your yard, that should help too.
Wow, you get them early. We don't usually get them until August up here, but right now we are being invaded with June bugs, at dusk it looks like we have swarms of honey bees around, but it's not, it's the June bugs. So far, they aren't hurting anything in my garden.
Brenda
FarmGirl # 711
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "~ Mary Pickford
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2010 : 06:11:02 AM
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Brenda, they are really early this year, I did not have them last year until the end of July! I have some hops growing up the back of the house and it looks like that is their favorite. I am getting up on the ladder and spraying soap and oil mixture on them later today. I can't have chickens...yet. Still working on the city ordinance, we lost the first time but we are not giving up! I have some baby apple and cherry trees that they also like. I am just worried, they can really devastate a plant.
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2010 : 10:38:27 AM
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Have you tried garlic juice and water? I use 3 parts water and 1 part garlic juice. The stuff Sherrye mentioned does work. It's pricey, though, and it's a powder you have to broadcast over your entire area you want to cover. I've also used bait traps. I know people say you're just attracting the beetles, but I've had them like a plague of locusts, like you're having, and I figured if I trap and kill thousands, that's millions of larvae that won't become beetles next year. They skeletonize everything in sight: grape leaves, trees, roses, and on and on and on. They don't eat dayliles, though.
Farmgirl Sister #50
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LakeOntarioFarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
933 Posts
Brenda
North Rose
NY
USA
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Posted - Jun 27 2010 : 5:17:05 PM
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Okay Diane, I was out in the rose garden this morning, cutting off dead roses and guess what I found??? Yup, they're here. Just a couple right now, but it is early for us too. We usually won't see them for a month yet, but I forgot how accelerated our spring was, may have something to do with it....
Janice I am going to try the garlic water, and knocking any live ones that I see into soapy water. Hopefully, both treatments will get rid of them all!
Brenda
FarmGirl # 711
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "~ Mary Pickford
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 07:49:35 AM
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We had these really bad a few years ago. We tried those hanging bag traps.
Well, the traps worked well at trapping, but the scent just ended up attracting more!
We don't have roses, they decided to go after the silks on the corn!!
We also get "june bugs" here in parts of central NC. They look like the scarab beetles you see on Egyptian motifs and things. They are slightly smaller than a quarter and absoutly LOVE the big huge blackberries!
They hover around the tops of the grass. Chickens LOVE them! |
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