Re: Japanese beetles

O.K. ya'll....childhood memories. When I was a kid my dad showed me how to tie a long piece of thread onto a Japanese Beetlebug's leg and then let it go and watch it fly around in circles. Fascinating for a little kid....until one day the bug's leg came off and I was horrified. Never did it again. I always let the bugs go..never hurt them. When it's leg came off I cried and cried. I haven't thought about that for YEARS till now.

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6


From: Tony Veca <romans8@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Japanese beetles
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:35:12 -0700

on 7/17/03 10:28 AM, Pamela J. Evans wrote:

handle our heat

Are you kidding!!!! They're about indestructible. I remember when I was a
kid in NJ,  those "buggers" ate everything in site. Roses  were practically
stripped. I worked my first summer in an azalea field & they were all over.
Touch a bush & they would drop off & burrow in the ground. When they would
take off in flight, it sounded like bombers flying over.
In CA. they have caught them in traps at the air ports. If they ever get
loose there, they would think they died & went to heaven.LOL.
We're having fantastico weather here. Mostly mid 80's, 55 - 60 nights. No
humidity.


Tony Veca <><
Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
Vancouver, WA  USA

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