Re: Japanese beetles
- Subject: Re: Japanese beetles
- From: "Merri Morgan" m*@wcgnet.net
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:18:20 -0500
Last summer I had the worst JB infestation ever here, quite heavy on the
asparagus ferns. But I also saw for the first time in my life a wheel bug,
the largest of the assassin bugs. And he spent the summer moving up and
down the asparagus bed eating Japanese Beetles!
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: <glink@att.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Japanese beetles
>
> <Any one have ideas about the [Japanese] beetles?>
>
> They mostly leave my stuff alone - we have a wild grape vine growing in
the
> dogwood tree and they LOVE it - they eat it down to skeletons every
summer. It
> never seems to hurt it though, it comes back strong as ever the next year.
You
> could attract them to the grape vine and then spray the vine I guess.
Much
> better than those bag traps.
> Gale
> Nashville z6
>
>
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