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LadyElaine
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I been killing them all day all yesterday. Hundreds of the little plant eatters. My roses 
My black berrys
my sod 
I read on the internet that traps just make them worst. How can it get worst?
I am going back out and kill beetles.
Anyone want to help just come on down, bring a net and hard shoes.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #1 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 4:04pm » |
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on Jun 20th, 2005, 3:58pm, LadyElaine wrote:
I read on the internet that traps just make them worst. How can it get worst?
I am going back out and kill beetles.
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Maybe the other Japanese beetles hear the screams of their trapped friends and, like humans, all come to watch to see what's going to happen next -- and then decide to snack while they're waiting.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #2 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 4:14pm » |
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The traps DO make them worse. Go to your local Co-Op, nursery, or Ag Center and they make a chemical that you can use to eliminate them. We've got them all over the place here in Tennessee, too. Once the little bodies begin piling up, they stink like a rotting corpse. They are enough to gag a maggot. 
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #3 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 4:22pm » |
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You mean these things?
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #4 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 4:27pm » |
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #5 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 4:45pm » |
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If you live out of town, get a few batam chickens, or a few guineas. You will be surprised how much they eat, plus you get some eggs.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #6 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 6:13pm » |
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Yep Vig, thats what they look like and thats what my plants look like !! 
Chickens hmmm I been wanting some chickens. I want a chicken house and all but I am afraid my dogs will kill them. Maybe I could get baby chicks and make the dogs think they are their moms.
Oh Buddy read this thread and get me some chicks Please!
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« Reply #7 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 6:55pm » |
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Before I moved up here I used to raise Batam breeds for the local FFA kids. At one time I had over 500 birds runnig around. I normaly kept about 50 for breeding. There wasn't so much as a cricket around my place. They will even eat the larva out of fire and mounds. Just remember if you let them out, if you want 15, get 20. 15 for you, 5 for the critters that are going to come up and eat them. Everything eats chicken, from feral cats to snakes and coons.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #8 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 8:53pm » |
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I'm so sorry .....
They haven't awakened here in Michigan yet, but soon, I'm sure.
As far as I'm concerned they're like the locust plagues in the past. I buy a product called "Bug B Gone" and make several daily trips through my gardens to zap them. This only works if you work at home and can make several visits/day.
I've tried grub control, that special bacteria spray, etc. Traps are useless - only invite more to your house. I also walk through the garden as the sun goes down with a coffee can full of water and dishwashing liquid - flip them off into the can and watch them drown. That's the most satisfying method of all.
When you love to garden, there's no worse predator!
My heart and soul are with you, my friend.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #9 on: Jun 20th, 2005, 9:46pm » |
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Damn those things are beautiful. In this case a picture is all we need.
Scare them off E and good luck.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #10 on: Jun 21st, 2005, 1:07am » |
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What about settin several of the beetle atracting traps OUTSIDE the garden area away from plants.........maybe they'll all rush to 'shop' there verses your garden. Shop till you drop Pam
PS: I had chickens for YEARS here and ended up pennin them up......they took dust baths in my flower beds and killed everything !!!! And they scratched and pecked around roots for grubs ect and damaged stuff from all angles. I liked havien em.....(had bantums and ginea's too.....racoons and weasel came regularly for dinner and picked em off one a nite)......but if ya have alot of plants like I do now and flower beds it 'didn't work' I had them loose. Plus they perched on the front porch railing and picnic tables out back........looked like hillbilly heaven. Chicken shit piled up EVERYWHERE.....it carries coccidia.......dirty birdy Pam
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #11 on: Jun 21st, 2005, 4:34pm » |
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They are really bad at my parents house in Gays Mills WI. Those suckers bite. There aint no getting rid of them. I will pray for you not to be overrun by them.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #12 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 8:16am » |
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Have you tried speaking to them in Japanese? 
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #13 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 8:47am » |
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How do traps make it worse???? 
I thought if the trap is set upwind of the roses, it prevents them from gettng to the rose.
Aren't they the larvae from grubs?
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #14 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 9:18am » |
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Traps make them worse because they attract SO many more from the surrounding area, and all they do is eat and screw. (Come to think of it, that sounds like a pretty good life!  )
Before they die, they produce more larva, which causes a worse problem the next year, and the next, until it snowballs.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #15 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 9:33am » |
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So short of napalming your garden how DO you get rid of them????
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #16 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 9:37am » |
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on Jun 22nd, 2005, 9:33am, LeLimey wrote:| So short of napalming your garden how DO you get rid of them???? |
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You try to find one from somewhere else, we'll call her "Yoko", to make it with one of the group of beetles affecting your yard, then she will eventually create such discord amongst the beetles that they will disband and go off somewhere else.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #17 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 10:07am » |
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on Jun 22nd, 2005, 9:33am, LeLimey wrote:| So short of napalming your garden how DO you get rid of them???? |
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Have all your neighbors buy traps!
Geez, I kill me.
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #18 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 11:28am » |
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Better yet, buy the traps and set them up in your neighbors' gardens. 
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #19 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 12:18pm » |
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My answer to everything - chemical warfare! I was lucky enough to stock up on chlordane before they banned it. When all else fails, chlordane (DDT).
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
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on Jun 22nd, 2005, 12:18pm, Bob P wrote:| My answer to everything - chemical warfare! I was lucky enough to stock up on chlordane before they banned it. When all else fails, chlordane (DDT). |
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Um...thanks, Bob.  Endangered species thank you, too.
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« Reply #21 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 12:41pm » |
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Wel now this certainly explains allot 
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #22 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 12:52pm » |
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on Jun 22nd, 2005, 12:18pm, Bob P wrote:| My answer to everything - chemical warfare! I was lucky enough to stock up on chlordane before they banned it. When all else fails, chlordane (DDT). |
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So, when you have company over do you walk by your storage shed and say, "that's where I keep my DDT."
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #23 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 1:07pm » |
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Come on guys no bashing or fussing Please!
I post things that seem funny to me, cause I like to laugh. The fussing and stuff I could do without.
My lawn and plants cost me over a $1000 dollars watching my lawn and my trees and plants just die
makes me sick. I got to laugh about stuff and I knew you all would make me.
I have to admit if that stuff was still around I would probley use it, cause the crap they got out now is not working. Oh top of that the misquitios are bad. Misquitos carry all kinds of bad stuff for our animals and humans. Its a toss up. Chemicals getting you or the bugs. Both suck.
Can we all just be friends Please!
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Re: Japanese beetles Everywhere!
« Reply #24 on: Jun 22nd, 2005, 1:16pm » |
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A flamethrower works pretty good. It kills mosquitoes, Japanese beetles, small mammals, bad kids, and eliminates the pesky problem of housing, as well!
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