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Post by snaffle on Jun 30, 2011 21:21:17 GMT -5
Yesterday when I was checking my red raspberry patch, I stupidly thought to myself.. oh my gosh! No japanese beetles. Maybe this will be a year without them!!!
Tonight I checked and there were a ton of them I put some cool water and dish soap in a cool whip container and went out to collect bugs.
I posted some notes that I put together on line tonight on the USEFULL TIPS board for some control practices.
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Post by Mary Ann on Jul 1, 2011 5:58:50 GMT -5
We've only seen three. I'm sure that won't last though. I was kind of hoping that perhaps they were spent, after last year's bumper crop of bugs. The Asian ladybugs weren't too bad here this spring either.
I'd better get my soap ready.... *sigh*
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Post by snaffle on Jul 1, 2011 6:28:20 GMT -5
From what I have read, those three beetles were probably the scouts. Go get 'em!!
Put them in your dishwater and let it set uncovered where you find them. When the others show up, they might decide your garden is not the best place to stay. Dang, I wish I could have seen the scouts at my house.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2011 8:56:25 GMT -5
We've got lots of them. Disgusting things like the tree right over the deck. There's beetle poop everywhere, so many beetles that you can walk outside and hear the tick tick of the poop dropping! I hate the things, BLEH.
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Post by Mary Ann on Jul 1, 2011 10:16:53 GMT -5
What?!?!
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Post by Yip on Jul 1, 2011 15:48:39 GMT -5
I never heard of beetle poop before! And you can hear it dropping??? What nightmares are made of!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2011 17:07:31 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, it's covering everything under the trees they inhabit. GAG.
Yeah, little click click outside on the deck. First happened last year and took me a bit to figure out what it was.
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Post by MJ on Jul 1, 2011 17:21:44 GMT -5
Well be sure you keep that stuff in your part of the state t-leigh. I don't want no stinking click clicks here. No sirree.
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Post by Mary Ann on Jul 1, 2011 18:16:34 GMT -5
I will drive around that part of Missouri myself.
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Post by Vicki on Jul 1, 2011 19:03:43 GMT -5
Ugghhh hopefully they leave MO soon. We will be in that area in a few weeks. We have enough here. I do not need to be bringing them and their poop back home with me!
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Post by Newfygirl on Jul 2, 2011 21:38:22 GMT -5
I had always wondered what was eating the leaves of our hollyhocks. Now I know its the japanese beetle. They eat the leaves and leave a skeleton! I checked out your thread in useful stuff and will definitely be taking care of those beetles.
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Post by Sheryl on Jul 2, 2011 23:42:50 GMT -5
When i went to the gathering, i was shocked to find these bugs that LOOK like sweet lady bugs, are really these vile Japanese Beetles! I don't think I have ever seen them here, in fact, not sure i have even seen a lady bug yet this year.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2011 1:05:20 GMT -5
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Post by snaffle on Jul 3, 2011 7:13:24 GMT -5
newfygirl the bugs that eat the hollyhock leaves are not always japanese beetles. You may be seeing some on the plants, but most likely they are other bugs.
I used to spray my hollyhocks with insecticide because I hated the 'skeleton' look to the leaves, until one summer
when an artist friend was here and she held up one of those skeleton leaves and said how she loved the LACEY look of holly hock leaves after bugs got finished with them
Now I look at those leaves completely different
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Post by snaffle on Jul 3, 2011 7:13:58 GMT -5
Mary Ann do you still have the cardinal bumping into your window? Cardinals LOVE to eat japanese beetles!!
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