Testing two Japanese Beetle Traps 

I love the Spectracide trap! When the bag gets full we pop it in the freezer until all of the beetles are too cold to fly away then dump the bag in our chicken run, and the chickens go wild!!!

Pro tip: You can also put a pale of soapy water right under the trap and it will catch all the ones that fall off the outside of the trap.

Good stuff. This is the first year I’ve hand such an infestation , and within days a week at the most 25% of my garden was being eaten away. They were on everything, especially younger trees and plants. Including wisteria, nectarine and peach trees, and nearly everything except the Hydragena which they normally love. My lawn looks yellow and I’m convinced it’s all related. I put mine together in the house walked out the the garden and they were all over me immediately. So thanks for this. I took this infestation very personally!

These male Japanese beetle traps remind me of the parties I used to attend in my teens & 20s. You show up, hoping to see a bunch of single, unattached "females", and instead, you arrive at a damn "sausage festival."

We've used japanese beetle traps in the past - have saved our crops quite a few times !!

Ever since my community was treated with milky spore the beetle problem is nonexistent. 🦀

I've used the Spectracide version for around 20 years and it's very effective. I'll be honest, I didn't know there was another bag trap, I'll have to give it a try.

Use a skinny wire to hang the bag so the beetles have only one option to land and that’s the bag.

Thanks for posting this - very helpful.

If you live within 5 miles of a highway, throw the lure nearby, much more effective way of getting rid of these.

As we have chickens we do reap the benefits of this trap. Seth drops them off each day. we have a challenge for the chickens to see how many they can eat in a 5 min. we will show the feeding frenzy soon.. thanks Seth..

The Beetle Bagger works more effectively I've noticed compared to the Spectracide bags and you can actually see how many you've caught.

Just set up our spectracide bag today and it is working well thanks for the review! These bugs are all over our garden.

I've always used the Spectracide product because that was what I saw locally and we had great results. Thank you for this reminder! We had yet to get ours for our gardens... keyword YET! Just ordered three from your Amazon link. 😎👍

They make perfect gifts for your neighbors! hint-hint...

HI PUT A SPOON FULL OF 7-DUST IN THE BAG AFTER SETING UP THE TRAP , IT WILL KILL THE BUGS IN THE BAG. THAT WAY THEY WILL NOT GET OUT AT ALL. IT WORKED FOR US.

Just got the bonide trap today and have 7 beetles in about 5 mins. I wish we would’ve gotten them sooner but it did come with two bags and two scent packages. So maybe in the spring next year we can save our flowering plums. Thanks again for the review

You mite consider chickens to clean them beetles up! LOL. Good test!

Blue dawn dish soap( @2 tblsp +/-) + water + 3 squirts( handheld style spray bottle)= dead beetle.some almost rt away but most within a few minutes. Be careful how low u go or bring the bags in at night,some critter tore mine down and ripped th bag open.

Thank you for sharing! This helps a lot :)

The Spectracide worked very well for me a couple of years ago

look into milky spore it takes out the beetles before they emerge from the ground.

🤔 one thing that's overlooked... beside ornamental and plants, it's the yard itself. There are MANY MANY MANY more under ground then above!!!! Grass dying in patches that just keep getting bigger and bigger or the whole yard is just brown is the result of the Japanese beetle grub,, they are eating away at roots!! All plant roots, And watering the yard to keep the grass and plants growing is just helping these grubs to survive. They spend most of there life underground then above. Years ago I had enough and I soaked my yard with herbicides at night the next evening there were hundreds of thousands of grubs that came to the surface and died, no Exaggeration!, .and the stink as they decade wasn't pleasant!! But no need to do this if your willing to keep alot of bags out every year for several year till the life cycle of the Japanese Beatles is broken, then a few bags will do every year.. In other words you have to get to the root of the problem.....one Beatle = MANY grubs offsprings.. and they eat and live much more under ground then above....oh,, and yes you will attract the Beatles from your surroundings, ie neighbors who don't give a sh!t, or that are clueless.. but it has worked and still working for me. In the beginning I was filling up bags daily, it finally tapered off after the first year. But now after a few years I might get a half bag of only two bags I put out.. it's the price you have to pay. But it's not really all that expensive...and kinda fun to be killing these invasive BASTARDS of a pest...

You are supposed to put something heavy in the bag. It helps keep the neck open.

Great information! Thank you.

our Japanese beetles are one to one and a half inches long a good fat cigar in body mass and when flying they are about 2 1\2 inches around and their legs are 3\4 to 1 inch long very stickery very big mandables and a metallic belly a green back with gold outlined around back which is matte finished but body is metallic green very very metallic..and they are clumsy but fast

So which one is the winner? You said "this one is the winner" without giving the specific name. It is hard to tell by the end of the video which was which! They both look so similiar that it is hard to tell the name brand.

Some have dual sex/food attractant, may be the two Bonide uses. I’ll have to get my hands on some as they’re helping themselves to our plants. Thanks for sharing

Good if you live out in the middle of nowhere. In a close community, you'll attract them from all over.

A little diatomaceous earth would help if you put a teaspoon in the bags

Your buddy Josh at Stoney Ridge says the key is to be downwind. Main reason your trap on the stake is working. Not sure it has much to do with sun or placing on tree. He places his trap on tree branch Spectracide but makes sure the trap is downwind. He posted a video in June 2020.

First time I have these beetles. Didn't know. I thought it was damage due to a huge storm. Now I know. I think they go underground to lay their eggs?

The first one I bought it work great! They have one that has a hard plastic container. I don’t like the idea that i have to buy more bags.

Thanks these damm beetles destroying my banana trees

Didn't follow directions for either one!! How can you do an honest comparison. LOL

How do dispose of the beetles can bag be reused? Good video

I was wondering how to empty the bag without them all get away. It says you can reuse the bag. do i step on the bag to crush them and then empty.

What’s the bait make out of?

Good chicken food

Within about 2 hours our badges completely full and had fallen to the ground

What brand is the green bag? When full like that dip in hot water with liquid dish soap and salt too kill them. When dead dump out &smash them. Then start over.

Thanks for the video. Why do the beetles fall into the bag? And does the bait kill them? It seems that it does and they die in the bag.

So you notice any reduction in beetles on your garden?

I'm confused. Why do the beetles fall in ( they can fly/have wings) and why dont they crawl out or fly out (again, they can fly/have wings)?

Will yhese things catch stink bugs or leaf footed bugs?

Excellent tutorial, thank you!! Question - once the bag is full how are you actually killing them?

Whats the brand of the winnwe?

I use the safer brand and I picked up around 1/2 pound within 30 min.

your kept saying "this one" and "that one". I found it difficult to follow which one you were talking about. And you did not name the one you liked best. I could see the picture, but what is the brand?

Will chickens or frogs eat the beetles?

how long does it take for beetles to die in the trap?

Um what? $75 shipping to canada?

When they get full they start to get rancid, person south to me has one and i get the joys of smelling the stinch, what should i do? This person does not associate with me due to previous bs crap they have done that i called out on to them.

beetle traps attract beetles from up to 5 miles away. You are doing nothing but bringing more in.