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Re: japanese beetles...your help



-----Original Message----- 
From: loisdan@juno.com
Subject: Re: [GWL] japanese beetles...your help

>I have used milky spore, but it doesn't seem to do much -- probably
>because the neighbors have them, too and attract them with traps in
>adjacent yards.

Several years I tried a neighborhood eradication program. I bought several 
beetle traps and gave them to all of my neighbors as well as putting two in 
my own garden. Oh, I took the lures out of the ones in my garden. It worked 
pretty well.


Duane Campbell
Syndicated garden columnist
Author: Best of Green Space; 30 Years of Composted Columns 

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