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#1 ·
Ok am I doing right? Several on another Forum are saying I should Spray. I tried Spraying and it didn't work. So I bought a Bag Trap, cut the bottom out, stuck it in a bucket with few inches of soapy water. Empty it once a day.



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#2 ·
Ok am I doing right? Several on another Forum are saying I should Spray. I tried Spraying and it didn't work. So I bought a Bag Trap, cut the bottom out, stuck it in a bucket with few inches of soapy water. Empty it once a day.



big rockpile
It's a great way to attract more bugs to your yard. Place any traps as far away as possible from anything you wish eaten. Better yet, put them on the neighbor you don't get along with's property.
 
#4 ·
"The problem is, the traps attract about four times as many beetles as would normally be in your yard, and only 50% to 75% of them will actually end up in the bag. The rest bounce off and make their merry way into your garden, where they vigorously set about munching your plants and laying plenty of eggs for next year’s beetles."

https://www.todayshomeowner.com/do-japanese-beetle-traps-really-work/
 
#5 ·
Well I sprayed them with Seven and next day they was back. We're picking every other day so don't really want spray on them.

I no longer see them on my stuff but neighbor has them on her stuff.

Like I say I was told to use the Bucket and Soapy Water because the Bag would fill way too fast.

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#8 ·
Used to be the traps used pheromones as bait so they only attracted males, not much help long term. I don't know about now. I recently read in Farmers Almanac that a small can of fruit cocktail in a bucket of water attract them well. I haven't tried it, all out of canned fruit. I'm going to try it with a 55 gal drum of liquid fertilizer mix. I don't have a lot of problem with them, spotty. They tend to eat corn silk which can inhibit good pollination.
 
#9 ·
the baits I use attract both male and female. I should empty it out several times a day. something like you have rigged up would work wonderful rock! until more people start trapping and killing them, the problem will continue to get worse. Yes, the first several years they might get bad, but the more you kill the fewer they'll be to lay next years plague. I use the trap with the hard plastic, removable catch bin. what I would like to do is cut out the bottom and attach a pvc pipe to bring the beetles to the ground level. place this trap in the field with my aunt and uncles free range chicken barns (we are talking about thousands of birds...) and see if they'll end the need to empty the bins into soapy water. can't think of a cleaner way to eliminate them... here is a pic of the traps I use with the bait. Sorry the pic is so large, but I don't know how to make it smaller... It's by Tanglefoot on amazon.
 
#10 ·
My experience is that Japanese beetles have favorites. I plant a bunch of sunflowers because they seem to be the preferred diet of the beetles in this area if given a choice. They eat up the sunflowers and mostly leave the rest of the stuff alone before they go wherever they go. They are only bad about 2-3 weeks a summer. After that you will randomly see some but not nearly as many.
 
#12 ·
Ive read about putting milky spore on the ground where you see them and that will kill them before they hatch next year.

Every day twice a day I walk around picking them and putting them into a cup of soapy water. Makes me feel like I'm winning somehow. Maybe next year there will be less.
 
#13 ·
The best way is to be be proactive and start a grub elimination program in early spring every year..

I spray an approved product over my feilds running the boom 12" -18" above the ground which are listed for turf Control...There are also side effects of this program as it gets other crawling biting critters as well... this needs done every two weeks from about April 1st until they stop emerging...And it'll slow any moles down too...

I had a few this year, but the SWD program I had to run kept them knocked down.

If you are looking for an organic method, use kaolin spray... It's a white clay...They won't eat what it's on...Turns everything white...But works till it's rained off.
 
#16 ·
You people are working too hard! All I do is let the Evening Primroses grow in the garden. Those Japanese beetles love them and COMPLETELY stay off the veggies I want to eat! (Other bad bugs love Amaranth; so if you let some of that grow around your garden area it will take care of other predators.)

The only predator I've not found a way to keep off what I want to eat are stink bugs! :(
 
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