THE JAPANESE HAVE INVADED THE US!!!!

[Beekissed]

That's what is kind of making me hesitate to whip out the citronella oil solution, as it could potentially keep my pollinators away from my blooms also. Wouldn't want that.

Today noted some JB in the garden, just a hand full, but more in the bag up by the coop, so still seeing these love starved JBs around. I'll just keep spraying them with soap and catching them in the trap until the numbers lessen even more.

Will freeze these freshly caught ones, though will label THAT bag VERY well. Wouldn't want someone to accidentally add those to some kind of stew....

 

[Smart Red]

I haven't spotted my first JB of the season . . . yet. So far, the mosquitoes have been demanding all my attention.

 

[Carol Dee]

Same here @Smart Red

 

[lesa]

As So lucky mentioned, knocking them into a container with water works perfectly. They swim around, but they can't fly. And watching the chickens "bob for bugs" is just too much fun!

 

[Beekissed]

http://childmadetutorials.blogspot.com/ ... -june.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/Japanese-Beetle-Trap/

Take a gander at these nifty little ideas!

 

[Carol Dee]

http://childmadetutorials.blogspot.com/ ... -june.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/Japanese-Beetle-Trap/

Take a gander at these nifty little ideas!

I like the milk jug idea! I will keep that in mind if they arrive in great numbers again.

 

[journey11]

I may try the milk jug idea. I also thought of maybe fitting an oil funnel to the hose of my shopvac, attaching a large mesh laundry bag to the inside where the hose dumps into the bucket, and just vacuuming those suckers off of everything! DH bought me some bag traps. I'm hesitant to use them since I don't want everybody else's beetles coming to my yard, but I guess that would be fewer left to breed around here.

 

[Smart Red]

Beware of leaving that homemade trap out overnight. The one year I fell for the JB traps, I got tired of dumping that tiny bag two times a day and came up with my own idea -- a 33-gallon garbage bag attached to the trap instead of the tiny one.

That is when I learned that raccoon LOVE Japanese Beetles. Of course, to get to the beetles, the coon had to tear open the garbage bag. Any beetles it didn't eat were free again and flew to my plants for a missed meal. I had five torn garbage bags and zero beetles that next morning.

Never thought of the shop vac. Of course, with this big an area I doubt I have enough cord.

 

[lesa]

We have used the shopvac idea. It works, if you can reach the area, where you need it. I prefer to "collect" chicken food!

 

[seedcorn]

I've converted gas powered blowers to suck things. Anything sucked up by them goes through the the blades. Would make bugs into liquid fertilizer.