Re: HYB: Japanese Beetles
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: Japanese Beetles
  • From: J* L* <j*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:40:26 -0700 (PDT)
 

So far I only used hand picking.  Not totally effective but this is only their second year here and I probably only had about 50 in a 2 week span.  Then they disappeared.  It is really strange - if you knock them off the flowers they just fall to the ground so I can step on them.  Only a couple actually flew off. 

I try to be organic so maybe next year I will get some of the wasps or bacteria and see what it will do.  

Jan in Chatsworth

From: "cholte@wi.rr.com" <cholte@wi.rr.com>
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Cc: J. Griffin Crump <jgcrump@cox.net>
Sent: Wed, June 30, 2010 12:11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Japanese Beetles

 

Hi,
Or you can use Merit on nearby fliage and they will die.
Char
---- "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> wrote:
> The Japanese beetles gorge on my roses, but leave the irises alone. Maybe you'd want to try some roses as sacrifice plants. Actually, if the beetles are a serious problem, you can modify a hand vacuum with a short piece of plastic tubing and some duct tape and remove the critters handily. -- Griff
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> From: Jan Lauritzen
> To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [iris-photos] HYB: Japanese Beetles
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> I can't believe it but my Audubon Field Guide to Insects lays the blame on us. It says:
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> '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.'
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> Jan in Chatsworth
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> 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
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> When I lived in Fresno they attached every pastel iris I had.
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> Janet, CA
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Jan in Chatsworth
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> From: "M*@msn.com" <M*@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
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> 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.
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> Mary Lou, near Indianapolis, Z5
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