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Re: Do birds eat japanese beetles?


Thank you, sir.  By "tall lawn" do you mean 3" or taller?  We mow at 
a height of 3" to shade hopeful weed seedlings.  Margaret L
>Margaret,
>The beetles jumped the big river almost a decade ago.  Starlings,
>those bothersome ugly pests, are among only a few songbirds that eat
>mature Japanese beetles.  Lots of other birds such as robins nosh on
>the grubs when they up close to the surface.  If a person has a lawn
>mowed tall and not hit with any broad spectrum pesticides in the last
>year, they will have a population of ants, spiders, and ground
>beetles living and eating throughout their lawn. When there is a
>decent population of those three groups of beneficial insects, all
>the eggs of any pest laying eggs in the turf will have 80% of those
>eggs consumed within two days; pretty good pest control in my mind.
>That includes Japanese beetles, sod webworms, bill bugs and others.
>I have a pretty complete file on this subject in my website at http://
>gardening.yardener.com/YardenersPlantProblemSolver/
>DealingWithPestInsects/PestInsectsInTheLawn/Grubs/
>PreventingGrubsNextYear
>
>Jeff Ball

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