RE: Jb magnets

Voice of experience?

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Kitty
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:44 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Jb magnets

Except Milk Duds taste better.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Jb magnets


> My only experience with June Bugs--Connecticut, July 1952, guard duty 
> [keeping North Koreans from invading Hartford and other New England 
> spas], middle of the night. Something breached the perimeter, most 
> probably an opossum; sirens went off, lights blazed on. I was standing 
> under a porch light! War zone! June Bugs from as far away as Peoria 
> zeroed in on the light and, like the kamikaze pilots of a previous war, 
> dove suicidally into it... and, insect vision being what it was that 
> night, into me as well.
> 
> Sort of like being pelted with Milk Duds.
> 
> 
> On Jul 10, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Zemuly Sanders wrote:
> 
>> I must say I have never had any damage to anything from what I call 
>> 'June Bugs.'  Are we talking abou tthe same insect?
>> zem
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" 
>> <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:55 AM
>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Jb magnets
>>
>>
>>> Kitty, I have had some damage from June Bugs on my Rose of Sharon, 
>>> but not
>>> much.  Do you use bait and bags or have you tried rue or some other 
>>> natural
>>> deterrents?
>>>
>>> Blessings,
>>> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Kitty
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 2:01 PM
>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>> Subject: [CHAT] Jb magnets
>>>
>>> Years ago I kept a yellow rose as my indicator plant that let me know 
>>> when
>>> Japanese beetles began arriving.  Eventually I started noticing their 
>>> other
>>> preferences and have removed them.  I got rid of Purple Loosestrife 
>>> for many
>>> reasons, but evicting many JBs with them was the real pleasure.  Pussy
>>> Willows were the next to go.  This year it will be the Blue Satin 
>>> Rose of
>>> Sharon; again for more than one reason.
>>>
>>> The blue flowers were the attraction for me.  I knew I might be 
>>> taking a
>>> chance because JBs loved my double ROS when I had it on the other 
>>> side of
>>> the yard and they devoured the white ROS that was 10 feet from the 
>>> blue
>>> one's placement.  I hoped though I could keep an eye on it.  However, 
>>> the
>>> other two ROS never, ever gave me a single volunteer plant, but Blue 
>>> Satin
>>> seeds like a maniac everywhere.  The other two ROS have been ripped 
>>> out and
>>> now, with the arrival of swarms of JBs on this one, it's gonna be a 
>>> goner,
>>> too.  Can't do much at the moment though as a Clematis is using it for
>>> support (it's about 7 feet now), but it is coming out this year.  
>>> ROS, never
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Kitty
>>> neIN, Zone 5
>>>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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