majorcatfish
Garden Master
today the june bugs have invaded they are everywhere 100's of them, squashed dozens of them in the main garden... think it's time to renew the milky spores...
THE JAPANESE HAVE INVADED THE US!!!!
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Carol Dee
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I was looking at flower garden late morning and found 6 still hanging around. Not for long... SQUISH.
majorcatfish
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this reminds me of about 5 years ago when the cicadas come out, dogs are outside snapping at everyone that comes close to them ,dang funny when they do get one.
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Beekissed
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I had left the ones caught the last few days in the bag as there weren't much, caught a few more today. Leaving them in the bag that long let some of them die and the others were very sluggish from the heavy rains we have gotten and the small amount of water in the bottom of the bag...I'd say there were a good 50 bugs in there.
I put them on the ground where the chickens could see me but they were wary once again, so I threw a handful of dry layer mash on top of them.....FEEDING FRENZY. Most of the older birds wouldn't eat the dead bugs and the young ones were only interested in those still moving...but my BA swooped in and left no bug standing...er..laying. Now that Little Red is gone, Idgie Threadgood is my very best forager and will eat anything that moves and most that don't. She'll eat a snake in a jiffy and she hoovered up those ugly bugs so fast it sounded like someone playing castanets.
I rinsed the bag with soapy water and then, on my way back to hang it, I knocked a couple of stink bugs and another JB into the bag, just for revenge...they landed in the bubbles.
Not seeing too many JBs out there...knocked a mating pile off today earlier but I think they found their way to the trap as there were a few lively ones in there. Still need to make a jug for knocking them off the plants, along with stink bugs, squash beetles, tater bugs, etc. Can't stand any beetles..they make my skin crawl.
I put them on the ground where the chickens could see me but they were wary once again, so I threw a handful of dry layer mash on top of them.....FEEDING FRENZY. Most of the older birds wouldn't eat the dead bugs and the young ones were only interested in those still moving...but my BA swooped in and left no bug standing...er..laying. Now that Little Red is gone, Idgie Threadgood is my very best forager and will eat anything that moves and most that don't. She'll eat a snake in a jiffy and she hoovered up those ugly bugs so fast it sounded like someone playing castanets.
I rinsed the bag with soapy water and then, on my way back to hang it, I knocked a couple of stink bugs and another JB into the bag, just for revenge...they landed in the bubbles.
Not seeing too many JBs out there...knocked a mating pile off today earlier but I think they found their way to the trap as there were a few lively ones in there. Still need to make a jug for knocking them off the plants, along with stink bugs, squash beetles, tater bugs, etc. Can't stand any beetles..they make my skin crawl.
so lucky
Garden Master
I think the swarm is lessening here. I'm so thankful they don't last all summer!
Carol Dee
Garden Master
Caught in the act! 
I showed no mercy.... SQUISH.
I showed no mercy.... SQUISH.
majorcatfish
Garden Master
ew.... bug porn... nasty
as for the swarm of june bugs only a handful flying around today...hopefully their smelled all the flowers over in the sub-division behind us...
as for the swarm of june bugs only a handful flying around today...hopefully their smelled all the flowers over in the sub-division behind us...
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Carol Dee
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Beekissed
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As soon as I saw the pic I said the same thing in my head, "Now we have bug porn? ICK...double ick."
But...that same scene played out in my own garden over and over~sometimes with 5-6 bugs in a pile up~ and it elicited the same response...bug porn on MY plants?
Think not. SQUISH.
Carol Dee
Garden Master
As soon as I saw the pic I said the same thing in my head, "Now we have bug porn? ICK...double ick."
But...that same scene played out in my own garden over and over~sometimes with 5-6 bugs in a pile up~ and it elicited the same response...bug porn on MY plants?
