An air pocket forms around a beetles surface while underwater meaning they float and have oxygen if you aren't feeding chickens you can use soap to break that surface tension so they sink and die faster and wont pile up on the surface to escape
Allen. I put a bucket with two inches of water and Dawn dish washing soap on one trap this morning. This afternoon I counted over fifty beetles in the bucket. Great tip. Thanks for sharing .Keep the tips coming. Ernie
For me, I'd put the trap far from the trees I want to save, in fact, I think the instructions say not to put them near your fruit trees- anything they like to eat.
I think it would be best to put the Beatles into your yard waste not your lawn for they still have eggs and if it's this bad of it infestation you need to put down some milky spore I think it would help you out a lot better with this method that you have great video thank you
The grubs just ruined my lawn. I am putting out some milky spore tomorrow but It is all out war especially with a lazy slob neighbor that I have. What would you pick as the best time frame to place these traps / buckets out ? Thanks for the ideas Alan.
I've got husbanded blackberries and not far from them on another persons property are unkept wild blackberries. I was killing beetles constantly by hand and one day I went to the wild patch and couldn't believe the number of beetles on those plants. I bought ONE of the Spectracide beetle traps, placed it between the two patches and it was full of beetles by the end of the day; had to be a thousand of them in there. It didn't 'cure' the problem on the husbanded plants but it made a SIGNIFICANT difference in my beetle problem. There are now less beetles on the wild patch as well. And the attraction argument; BS. One attractor is the plants themselves and the trap a second. Exponentially more are going into the trap than onto my blackberries. AND I'm not constantly having to maintain a stupid bowl of dish washing detergent.
I did this one time over ten years ago... I had a super mess.... 3 bags, 3 big totes with soapy water for instant drowming. Bury derp or dispose with trash. I also planted mint in many areas... Last year I saw my first japanese beetle in ~ ten years. I may have killed every Japanese beetle in town that first and only year that I used traps... Or the mint is repelling them...
A big question I have is we have these in our pool. That’s the only big we really get in it. I remember our friends had these bag traps at their farm when I was a kid in the mid 1990s but couldn’t find these last summer until yesterday! Hanging these around the pool will help? I recall the farm we used to visit had a big number of these in each bag. Would an exterminator help as well? The beetles mostly go to the pool for water.
Certainly understand the concern about attracting new beetles. But I think traps take a lot of beetles out of circulation, preventing them from reproducing. The reproducing causes next year's "bigger crop" of beetles since each female can lay 40-60 eggs.
Every year I used them I got more beetles the following year. It got so bad that my neighbor's trees started suffering too. These might help some people but it made it so much worse for us.
Seems to me you would attract every japanese bettles in the area smack into your yard...when you're trying to do the exact opposite. Either pick on Neem Oil spray seems thd better solution.
That's true but if you did it at the early part of summer you can stop the spread of millions by killing them before they breed, helping your whole community.
This a bad bad idea. It'll ATTRACT every beetle within miles of the bag and the bag will fill up fast. We tried this years ago with several bags and it was a nightmare!!
YES!!! It got so bad they ruined my neighbor's trees too!! Literally thousands of these damn things. We did this for a couple years and each subsequent year it got worse and worse. And for every beetle that makes it into the bag, just think of how many DON'T because they'd rather have your roses or the bag is too full after only 10 hours and you haven't changed it yet.
I catch them with hands, millions, and....i have river with a lot of fish. You should see the fish how is eating them They attack most of rose hips, wild grapes, hazel nut tree, cripple myrtle tree, nettle, plum tree, evening primrose
Wow I’ve never seen so many beetles in one place in my life... I thought I had a lot of them!!! Lmao But I do have a question: don’t these traps attract more beetles into your yard than you would ordinarily have?
It's an attractant. You will bring more beetles to your location because of the scent. Do not hang it in your garden. Hang it a quarter mile away and treat the surrounding 1-acre ground with milky spore.
Just put the bag far away from anything you're trying to protect!!! They work really well!!!! I like to put my bags away from my yard and across the road from where I live. 😊🐞
I bought the trap last year and I have full bag every day. They come from all my neighbors property to my property, so my neighborhood was free of Japanese beetle except me. No same mistake this year. No thank you.
YES! While the bucket is a good idea, placing the lure near your plants attracts more beetles. Another video joked by suggesting giving the lure and trap to a neighbor so the beetles will go there instead. Good idea, but get it the heck away from your crops!
