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Re: HYB: Japanese Beetles
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: Japanese Beetles
  • From: J* L* <j*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:54:28 -0700 (PDT)
I can't believe it but my Audubon Field Guide to Insects lays the blame on us.  It says:

'The Japanese Beetle was introduced accidentally in 1916 on iris roots imported from Japan and has been a major pest for years.  Its numbers have been reduced by the controlled use of parasitic tachnid flies and tiphiid wasps that prey on beetle larvae.'

Jan in Chatsworth

From: AISSlides <gbyp123@yahoo.com>
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, June 29, 2010 9:16:36 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Come What May X Lunar Whitewash

When I lived in Fresno they attached every pastel iris I had.
 
Janet, CA

From: Jan Lauritzen <janicelauritzen@yahoo.com>
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, June 29, 2010 9:04:44 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Come What May X Lunar Whitewash

Have anyone else noticed that the Japanese Beetles seem to go for the whites - even on an amoena or reverse amoena - and the very pale yellows?  I never had them here in Southern California before last year.  Here is a picture of them in my garden on Two Below Zero.

Jan in Chatsworth

From: "MryL1@msn.com" <MryL1@msn.com>
To: iris-photos <iris-photos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, June 29, 2010 8:10:41 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] HYB: Come What May X Lunar Whitewash

 

 
Well, rats!  My old Kodak just can't handle white very well.  By the
time I got home from work, I had to take half a dozen Japanese beetles
off to get this shot.  This summer maiden is 39.5 inches with nine buds
today.  Three in the lowest socket, so I expect more in a few days.
The leaf on this stalk has no branch, so it's a looong way up to the
branching in the photo.  Hopefully just another example of maiden
misbehaving and not the influence of LW.
 
Mary Lou, near Indianapolis, Z5



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