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It may depend on where you live. My garden ( in southern Ontario Canada) had petunias and holes were eaten through the blooms, daily. I spent three hours a day through the entire season, and all my planters are full of those eggs. I’m slowly reclaiming the dirt and getting rid of the grubs.
Don’t buy a trap unless you have a huge wide open space. Otherwise you’re inviting them with the scent of JB sex pheromones. You need to treat the soil with something like BogBeGone, late in the summer and the following spring.
They 🪲and the grubs make great fish bait 🐠🐟 We have birds here... Ibis I think... that have long beaks to get deep in the sandy soil and feast on the grubs..
The pheromones in the traps attract male beetles. The females will follow. If the females that follow have been mated the you end up with lots of eggs in your yard/garden. I wouldn't use any pheromone products in my garden.
They’ve taken out most of our ash trees in my area of eastern canada. So now they’re destroying lots of the wild grape vines, killed off most of our roses before we could do anything about them, etc. etc…. Hate those dam things and all the other invasives brought in from global trade.
Wow, do NOT install your flashing like this, caulk should NEVER be the only thing between you and a leak. That flashing is supposed to tuck under the shingles.
You ever try Tangle foot as a substitute for the glue you've been using I am not sure what is cheaper but I've seen a few people using the Tamgle foot and they seem to like it. Thanks for the video I do like the Ball concept going to try it out
I hand pick and have a bucket of dawn soap water. I use landscape fabric in my garden now and it stops 50% of bugs.slugs,potato beetles and Japanese beetles. I spray my fruit trees
I have 2 female pit bulls that guard/run the farm. They will bring in the herd of cows and horses from the back 40. Saves a 75 oy woman some step. I never trained them. They have learned from consistent daly ritualistic chores, and my body language of what is expected. They have constant eye contact looking for gestures from me, very little verbal cues.They are even an alarm clock. If I get absorbed in a project they come and give the stair. Time to bring everyone in. They control opossum, raccoons; woodchuck and rodents in the garden but not rabbit. I used to have rabbit. They also alarm when there are hawks. Fox, are the most devastating predator. All my loses have been attributed to them, yet not coyote, except for one sick lamb. I have one female that is friendly-ish that follows my tractor when I hay my fields. I love my chickens ducks and guineas. They are mostly care free. The guinea cocks can exhaust each other chasing around. I love the females call. It has a stable grounding background effect if you get past the judging. Kind of like morning rooster calls. I never stop appreciating what I am blessed with.
I am so sorry for you loss and the terrible way you lost Sampson. We know how it feels to lose a beloved family member. But can't imagine losing one that way.
I just purchased one yesterday, and I already caught 2 within 24 hrs! But I placed it in the back of my yard (my flowers are in the front) can I place the bag 10-20feetaway from garden or further?
The pheromone that attracts the beetles is technically the pheromone given off by females to attract males. Here in Japan, people would bottle traps and put mating pairs in as a trap because one of them would be female for sure. Since we don't have these kinds of super effective traps for them for some reason. If you constantly do this you can disrupt the mamekogane breeding cycle in a pretty wide area and massively decrease population year after year. Natural predators exist here but not really in urban areas so entire neighborhoods would set up these traps in the past to basically snuff them out for the entire town. People stopped growing roses as much though so more rare to see now. I imagine with the massive population of these beetles infesting there as invasive species, it would be a good idea to get the neighborhood community together to put these much more effective traps up every breeding season If your community is serious about erasing them. Their breeding season is June to August.
So ignorant. These are bird food Learn about a complete ecosystem and the available predators which will take care of this problem with ease and environmental integrity.
The Japanese Beetles are here in Canada. Niagara Falls Ontario is where I am located. I too have petunias at the base of my Zinnias, they leave the petunias alone but are attacking my Zinnias.
Milky spore is the best… it takes 3-4 years to build up and then it lasts for 20+ years. I have my next door neighbor with tons of beetles flying and eating everything in site. Strangely I have none and it’s been like this for years. If any come over here … the microbes take care of the females and the larvae. Goodbye beetle, none to hatch out the next summer. I tried it on a whim and so glad because prior they were eating everything down to skeletonized mess. Ruined all my flowers and plants. Milky spore is all natural, no poison, etc. Let Mother Nature work for you and for gosh sake don’t spray the lawn with any pesticides or you will kill the milky spore microbes.
I LOVE the beetle bags you have! Ours are different and they dont open at the bottom so we have to empty ours every other day and its stinky and messy but i am about to go buy some of your linked bags now! We have grape vines and a lot of hibiscus plants around our house and these bags have been a life saver! We have discarded hundreds and thousands of these beetles and they seem to fill to the brim every other day. Your video was very informative so thanks for all the research you've done and relayed to us in this vid! Oh, and we have to put them atleast 20 ft down wind of our grapes, flowers and trees and we just hang them on our fence but im going to get a hook like you have so i can place them exactly where i want! Tha ks!
Thanks for the video. I'm here in San Diego. We have a fig tree that attracts the big green Japanese beetles. I will pick up the fallen figs and encourage people on the property to pick them off the tree. We also have hibiscus shrubs full of whitefly so I'm dealing with that too. Again, thanks for your video.
Thanks so much for sharing! It's nice to have a big property that you can put the traps far away from the garden. I've always found that pheromone traps backfire. I have a huge India Moth problem from just one trap that attracted every India Moth in the county. Buckets with pound on seals are the only thing that can keep them out of food or feed.
FIY: The horticulturist here where I live said those traps need to be hung FAR away from your garden area, else you will cause those beetles to be attracted to your garden plants. He said to always be mindful where you are hanging them, (not too close to a neighbors garden)... that would cause someone else trouble.... but mainly, you don't want to put those traps in your garden area or anywhere near it. The idea is to lure the beetles AWAY from your garden and to end up in the bag. The attractant in the lure is Geranium oil.
Yes at least 20 ft down wind because they will flock to everything close to it. We made that mistake. We have a grape vine and a lot of hibiscus and foliage around and that's why we bought them. but her bags seem to be the best I've seen, ours don't open at the bottom but these have been a real life saver for us and our grape vines!
You are totally right! We put up the traps last year exactly as suggest on the package---far away from our garden and we had the worst infestation we've ever had! No more traps for us! I'll try something else.
@@susanbutler3429 It is extremely tedious but handpicking is the best. I walk my garden, which is huge, 3X a day with a bucket of soapy water and drowned them. I am retired but I would prefer to do other things.
Japanese Beetle traps just add to the problem. I used them for a few years and just got more beetles. I don't use them anymore. I'm using Milky Spore. It works!
The pheromones in the traps attract male beetles. The females will follow. If the females that follow have been mated the you end up with lots of eggs in your yard/garden.
Buy them and give them to your neighbors as a good will gesture because they attract the beetles from a great distance. You will then not have as many.
