Re: Japanese beetles - GWL

**J* L* <h*@yahoo.com>**

I don't have any hard data either, but my experience with neem against Japanese beetles -- and this was 12 years ago in another state -- was that it was much more effective as a preventative than as a control. 

If I began spraying roses and other plants that always attract the beetles about a week or 10 days before they usually arrived -- and continued at intervals -- it seemed that I had far fewer of them, or sometimes they bypassed my yard entirely.

But if I waited till the pests were present, neem had little effect in my garden.

Just an observation in one location for about three years till I moved to where -- hooray! -- I didn't have to bother with Japanese beetles.

Judy Lowe

http://twitter.com/JudyDigginit

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> I've been using a formulation of 70% neem oil on my shrub
> altheas and  
> perennial hibiscus for three years as a Japanese Beetle
> control.   Unfortunately 
> I can't say it works, but I can't say it doesn't. 

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