Re: Japanese beetles and Palmetto bugs

In a message dated 7/31/00 12:07:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com 
writes:

<< We have fewer Japanese beetles this year ....ferns (yes 
 ferns), >>
===>The Japanese beetles seem to change their tastes here from year to year.  
One year they favored my dawn redwood and decimated the foliage.  Another 
year I could always find a bunch on the asparagus.  Another year they hid in 
a planting of tall grass.  And this year the hibiscus.  The one plant you can 
always count on finding them on, though, seems to be roses.
 
<< They are unnatural to look at, are given to continuous public fornication 
and 
 inspire disgust in all gentle gardeners.  They are impervious to death by 
 drowning,  being able to swim for weeks in a rain barrel.  >>
===>I actually find them rather pretty.  They may not drown, but they do not 
escape my jars of water.  Perhaps they suffocate from smothering each other?  
I suspect they can't fly when they get too wet.  Perhaps they then just die 
from a natural short lifespan?

Bill Lee

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