Get rid of Japanese beetles without poison chemicals or sprays! 

I feel it needs said that at least in my case stupid often does hurt LOL!

I have always been told that if you want to protect an area, place the traps about 50 yards away from the area. Like if you were doing a garden area, put them about 50 yards from each corner. Otherwise, you are drawing them to the garden. I've also heard that those traps can draw beetles from as much as a half mile away. Good luck with them.

Hi Josh ! Take a big plastic lid (cool whip size ) and run it down the wire tie to cover the top . It will keep your bait dry . The beatles will still find their way in ! Woooo !!

You might try innoculating your soil in the orchard with milky spore. That will take care of the Japanese Beetle at the larvae stage.

Hello Josh, I have a recommendation for you to use. Its called St. Gabriel organic Milky Spore Powered. The Life cycle of those Japanese Beatle, is they mate fall to the ground lay their eggs and they borrow down then reappear the following year. The powder is organic you spead it on the ground around the trees, the larve will eat, they die as they decompose the spores spread and so the following year if they reappear it will kill more of the larvae. I did this 2 years ago and i havent have any issues with the critters. The bad thing is you won't have the snacks for the chickens but you will have peaches.

if you mount them over a 5gal bucket with soapy water and open the bottom of the bag they will fall right through into the water so you don't have to keep emptying the bag all the time. You could also cover your trees with bug netting to save your fruit.

Did traps for years had traps full of them but it never helped. Then we used milky spore and no more beetles.

Was happy when my neighbor hung these...all the beetles left my yard and went to his ;)

Per your advice, I used some of these bags last summer to keep the beetles from decimating my fenceline shrubs. The bags were absolutely effective. It appears the scent chemical intoxicates the beetles and they fall into the bag. They sit there flailing their legs helplessly. The beetle bag is a very effective device that is not harmful to the environment. I also recommend it highly.

Be ready for an infestation of those beetles - those traps attract not just the ones in your garden/orchard, but every other beetle within about 1/2 mile. It's said, tongue in cheek, to hang them next to your neighbor's property, they'll draw your beetles away to his land - lol. Next year maybe try neem oil before the trees flower and then again weekly up until flowering - get the Organic kind. Good luck!

Putting milky spore in the grass areas also helps. Spores build up after a while and stay in the soil. It kills the grubs!

Josh, I use those around my property near my fruit trees as well and they work fantastic but a little tip for you. Place the traps about 10 feet away from the trees you want to protect. The attractant will actually bring more beetles to the trees if they are hanging in the tree then if they where located away from them. Hope you get to enjoy those peaches some day. God Bless.

Josh, hit those trees monthly with a good spray down of neem oil. They don't like the oil and it is non-toxic. We had issues with those beetles a year ago and the traps only brought more.

Every beetle within 5 miles will be attracted to those trees.You should hang it away from fruit trees/garden. I cut the bottom and rigged up a 40 gallon trash bag about 200 yards away. Worked great keeping the bugs away from garden.

I had this issue on my Crape Myrtle trees and I used a similar trap, but every place I read said to put the trap up wind and away from where you don’t want them. Also treating the surrounding soil with Milky Spore. This kills the grubs and doesn’t allow them to mature into beetles. It worked for me, maybe try putting the traps away from your trees and trying the Milky Spore,

Not only fruit trees, but gardens as well. I am battling Japanese Beetles over my beans this year, they love beans.

Look on the back of the beetles. If you see one or more white dote, release that beetle if you can. The white dote is the egg of a parasite fly that kill the beetle as it grows inside the beetle. Each fly can kill about 100 beetles, so it can decrease there number very quickly. Just another tip, don't put the trap in the fruit tree. Try to make a circle at about 200-300 feet from your trees so the beetles won't stop in the tree anymore. Good luck, you really have a lot of those guys. It's always fun to see your new videos!

hi there been there with Japanese beetles milky spore works better . highly recommend . i us to get a 5 gallon bucket of about every 4 days (20 ) traps in peak season . now i don't even put out the traps . it takes a few years to kick in . thanks john

My grandfather had a device he used that had a glass bottom. He use to dump them in a mason jar of Kerosene every day. If I remember correctly he used apple slices as bait. My father-in-law had one as well. We didn't have as big a problem when we started using Neem oil on the property. It's a natural grub treatment.

Hey Josh, you can buy just the lures and the bags separately. Reuse the plastic part and save a few dollars! Those traps work great. I've been using them for years. You may also want to incorporate some sort of grub control program to kill their larvae too.

I love that shirt! Very similar to a phrase my dad says "stupid is what got you there"

Wow, I’m 68 and remember those bug bags when I was a kid in Connecticut. Haven’t seen them in years however. The attractor scent is unique. Very strong and sweet. I can smell it right now watching you. They used to fill up in an hour. Best of luck.

I use these in Connecticut and they work the best!

That chicken got knocked tf OUT! 😅🤣

Grow some Inca Marigolds, the large variety, and plant them around your yard and at the end of your garden rows. They are poisonous to the japanese beetles, and they attract them. They will eat at the bloom and leaves, to the point you think the marigold is dead, but if you leave the plant there, it will sprout new leaves and then blooms again in the fall, and have great color. I know it would be too late to do this year, but food for thought next year.

Neat video. simple, useful good price and no bad poisons so its safe around kids and pets. Thanks for the info and the demonstration.

I got a 100 count drawstring wedding/jewelry bags deal from Amazon pretty cheap, 5x7". Got 2 of em in fact lol. I have bagged 2 apple and 2 Asian pear trees this year and all my tomatoes (stink bug bite holes? Not anymore!) Thought you might look into it at least.. that tree is small and easily accessible, bagging 40 fruit would be a 10-15 min affair once a year. Something to consider. (They can be seen in action on my last few vids)

Just got mine in the mail today.

I use to use these and they do work but I also have notice where the beetle is right next to the trap and continued to eat my leaves. I use an organic cocktail that I make that works for me. Another thing you can do is plant a green beans far away from your main area you want to protect and use the green beans as a trap crop. Japanese Beetles just love green beans more than anything.

Wow - as a kid (2-10 grade) we lived in El Paso Texas. The Japanese Beetles that were 1.5" long and .75 wide !! We used thread tied in their wings and 'flew' them around the yard. Crazy attacking our Sun Flowers we planted in the back yard. Frosty Green and with colors on the 'belt'.

That looks like a great system and it seem to work perfectly and if I had many fruit trees here at my place in Arkansas I would be buying and putting the traps out to see if they would catch the insects we have here. I have not seen any of those insects here yet, but there may be some I have not noticed. Thanks for this tip and I hope it helps you considerably in catching those insects.

My parents had Japanese beetle issues for almost 10 years until they started treating the soil and killing the larvae. Year 3 with no beetles on their trees!

Awesome! Thanks! I feed them to my pond fish. Gives them a little extra nutrients than the dry feed I give them.

Have you ever done bat houses to deal with the evening mosquitoes?

Ever heard of milky spore for control?

We use to use bread bags 30 years ago. My dad always said we need to put them in a neighbors yard.

Does it really work long term though? Will it attract more to your property? What is its range?

I love how he throws that peach and SMOKES that chicken , and says he throws like a girl 😂😂🤣

Hi..... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍

We have a few acres, with a good section of fruit trees, we have had a major infestation the last two year. Between the local Amish fruit thieves, and these Japanese beetles, we haven't had a bit of fruit out of our orchard. Last weekend I took two bag traps like you shown, I have had to empty those bags twice this week. I was getting mobbed by beetles as I was hanging the traps. I 100% swear by these bags.

I have used these for a few years and they really work well. I only have a few trees but I still want to protect them. Now if I can only keep the deer away.

Hey Josh what we like to do is put the traps on a 3 or 4.inch pipe and send it into a five gallon bucket and put a little water in it that way you don't go so many bags and you will fill that in a day or two as you already know keep up the good work

Yes they work I have used them for years...

I just bought today. Found your RU-vid channel how to put it together. Thanks for your video.

Wonder iffn ya could take a old aluminum foil pie tin n punch a hole in the center and place a cpl inches above the trap on the twist tie forming a rain roof so to speak

Whatever happened to the Glyph alternative follow up vid? Can you please let us know how that went?

Hello from Sardis City, Alabama. The beetles arent that bad here!! Wow!!!

Hi Josh, when are you going to get to the Willis Jeep project? That's if your not to busy with the farm. Maybe a winter project. Take care.

LOVE THE NON CHEMICAL THANKS

Thanks josh! I have been looking for a non chemical way to deal with them pesky beetles!

That was incredible, lot of dang beetles lol

Will bees get killed with those? Will they work for other beetles as well? Like lily beetles..and cucumber beetles.

I used those kind of traps seventeen years ago to get the beetles off my landscaping plants. I also got them off the neighbors plants across the street to the east of me. I would watch them fly over every time a breeze when by. You are right that they are grubs that live in the ground before emerging in adulthood as a beetle. The bad news about that is the grubs eat grass roots. Another problem is that they draw moles and the moles really do damage to the yard or field. It can also be dangerous for castle. The more you eliminate the better it will be.

Hey Josh I bought the same kind you did at the beginning of the season. I normally buy them from my garden store. That brand you got doesn’t have the secent for the male, it only has the one for the female. So went back and bought the one from the garden place. The one I bought is called Beetle Bagger it has a dual release floral and a pheromone lure. I’ve caught more with the one from the garden store. It seems to attract them better.

Dang that works great... they should sponsor you for such a great review of their product and showing it does work.. Maybe at the end of season you should see if you could get it cheaper and buy for next year. Have a good evening 🌻🌻🌻

Happy chickens is a plus.

Awesome.. whatever it takes man.

Take a plastic milk jug put vinegar sugar and a banana peel couple cups water in jug cut hole small near handle entry point. Use wire or string around handle to hang works great around apple trees fruit trees gardens

We put pie tin on top then the rain will not get in

poke a hole in a paper plate run the bag hanger wire thru the hole and hang so if it rains the plate should shed the water

Man that’s awesome! Sure beats knocking them off with a stick into a can of soapy water! They haven’t got in my peaches but love corn and beans every year

Seen a few mention it, but ideally you want to get those bags a ways away from whatever your protecting. Those lures have a concentrated mating pheromone in them so they will attract every beetle in the area. I usually put them on the very outskirts of my property so it draws them away from my fruits and vegetables. Do love the tip about feeding them to the chickens though. That little tidbit will definitely save me a ton on meal worms and still give me almost thirty happy cluckers.

Thanks for sharing Josh

Another thing that works is a bug zapper with a white, flat 2 inch deep container filled with soapy water, placed underneath on the ground, about 2-3 ft below. Every morning the container will be filled with hundreds of dead bugs, which my ducks and chickens rush to every morning when let out of their coop. All sorts of bugs fly towards the light, hit it, and fall into the water. Most are too big to get zapped, but they do drown in the soapy water. The soap is key! It blocks their breathing pours. Hope this helps lots of people! I was amazed when I discovered it by accident.

Want to see the chickens enjoy there snack

These just drew thousands more Japanese beetles to my yard.

You need some tree chickens, lol

I went with the fruit and nut orchard spray. All organic. Use it right up tp harvest

Enjoy watching your video

Very informative,THANKS

Never hang traps in your precious fruit trees, it's much more effective to hang them as far as possible away from valuable plants and crops. You want to draw the beetles away. Plant four o'clock flowers as a sacrificial plant which they love but are poisonous to the beetles, plant onions in every garden bed- they hate them! Net favorite plants if you can (especially while they are producing flowers and fruit), use Milky Spore spring and fall and add beneficial nematodes which will eat the larva in the spring and fall when the ground is warm and wet. If you have a smaller plot of land go around in the early evening and knock the beetles into a bucket of soapy water. This is when they're slow and least likely to just fly away. Water only your crops and never your grass since they LOVE burrowing down in soft wet soil at night! Use diatomaceous earth around known nesting sites. It can take a couple years of diligent work to beat those bugs!

Sure now you tell me, I pulled out my fruit cocktail tree last year, never produced ripe fruit. The peaches and other fruit would get holes all over and leak juice, then shrivel up and fall. I knew it was some kind of bug never thought about Japanese Beatles.

I need to get some of those we had them out here in January

Where you been, I had them back in the 80's.

Great advice but I don't know if we have Japanese bugs herein Australia, maybe the bush fires got em all..Bob

Well I've got same problem my trees are 4 year old and this was first year I had peaches. But the bugs Just totally ruined the trees. It was not the beetle . But it kill all the peaches . So I feel your pain. Ron.

Use a wide-opening plastic container with a bit of water inside and a couple drops of dish soap; hold underneath beatles on leafs, touch leafs, beatles drop straight down into water, drown. Also, fence around fruit trees, let chickens range within to control.

For bug killing therapy I take a spray bottle and mix water with Dawn dish soap and spray them. They will die within one minute and fall to the ground. Die Bugs Die.

Thank you for sharing!

You can splice a 50 gallon garbage bag onto the bag it comes with

I used one similar but different brand. They work great. I wish I would of put them out this year. The Japanese beetles about wiped out my zucchini.

Put a pin hole in a disposable plastic plate n run it thru bread tie to make roof for trap. Also drop the foil top and a rosebud in the bag.

We do not have the beetles here. In Arizona.

The bags use an attractant, put them away from the trees to keep the beetles from your trees.

My father learned that you dont need the scent at all. Just hang the bag you will fill the bag almost daily. My wife and I have emptied them hundreds of times. The dead and dying beetles will stink terribly. The holes let rain out so branches don't break.

Thanks for the video. Why do the beetles fall into the bag? My guess would be that the bait is toxic to some degree.

I use bags and spray Neem oil on trees.

Thanks for the tip.

Hi from Torquay South Devon uk. Wooooo

Throw them in the pond, the catfish will love them.

We have 3 different types of beetle traps, one we actually hang in the chicken coop cause it has a hard screw on catcher. Every day we empty it and the girls go wild and they know exactly what I'm doing when I walk to the trap. It helps if you dump and soak them in water first so they don't fly away before being consumed. Haven't found one trap that works better than another, they all work great, however, we have lures that have a plastic pouch with holes in that keep effective after rain. We use neem oil (75%) in conjunction with the traps but you have to reapply it after it rains, leaves turn bitter to them. With the neem we have found two treatments three days apart usually does the trick. It really helps if you treat them when you see the first one instead of after they are full force.

Hey Josh thanks for the video I enjoyed it and a friend of mine years ago had a bag like that similar but that was for horse flies and it does work because I seen it for myself and I didn't know that they make one for Japanese beetles and I didn't know how much damage Japanese Beatles can do up until now so great information to know for me for the future so thanks again

Off grid with Doug and Stacey Made a great video about this you need to watch it. It killed there bug problems in there fruit trees

We have them to

Try Surround WP Crop Protectant it is Kaolin Clay a fine powder you spray on wet

You can feed the Japanese beetles to your chickens. I do and they love them.

put a lid on top to stop the rain from washing it out. plastic lid or a tin lid.

love the seiko

Do you guys ever get those ready made pies, the ones that have a cardboard circle on top? Just me thinking outside the box, but why not save those round cardboard discs. Then when it is time to hang your traps, poke a hole in the center of the disc, feed it through your wire, and BAM you have an instant rain guard. Just gotta think outside the box to fix your problem. =)

Try Surround WP by NovaSource. It will repel Japanese beetles, cucumber beetles, allsquash bugs, grasshopper, and a whole lot more. I say this from my own use of it. The Japanese beetles hate it and won’t even land on my plum, apple, peach trees. I may get a few at the very top. It’s a clay that has to be mixed and sprayed on. You will have to spray the new growth and after every rain. You will say goodbye to those traps as I did.