Re: japanese beetles...your help

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-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Campbell <dcamp911@gmail.com>
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 10:52 am
Subject: Re: [GWL] 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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