Re: Japanese beetles and Palmetto bugs

In a message dated 7/30/00 5:08:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com 
writes:

<< Just when we are picking off Japanese beetles, >>

I suspect the Palmetto bugs in Buffalo are just our regular black cockroach 
that we also call a "water bug" here in Cincinnati, as opposed to the brown 
German cockroach.

I've been bragging for a month that my 10 years of carefully picking off 
Japanese beetles and drowning them in the little jars of water that are 
scattered around my garden has paid off--very few of them around this year.  
Then this week they've invaded.  This year they're on the hibiscus flowers 
more than anything else, although what few roses I have in bloom have also 
been eaten.  The other day all the white-flowered hibsicus blooms had beetles 
and the red ones did not.  Today it was equal opportunity.

Still, though, careful and diligent picking of the beetles does dramatically 
reduce the population.  I have also gotten over my squeamishness about 
squashing them between two fingers.  Don't know if I could do that to a 
"water bug" though.
Bill Lee
Z6a

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