Re: Mashing Japanese beetles
- Subject: Re: Mashing Japanese beetles
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:25:33 EDT
In a message dated 6/30/02 10:46:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, robyn@icx.net
writes:
> I just wanted to give everyone some good advice.. don't mash Japanese
> beetles through a closed Hibiscus blossom. There could be a small
> bumble bee in there too that will not be happy. So now you know. My
> thumb does not hurt too much.
===>Ouch, Nancy!! I have several jars of water (with screw-on lids)
strategically placed around the garden. Several times a day I make the rounds
tapping the JBs into water. When the jar gets very full, they tend to fly
right back out again, as they need to get wet to get grounded. Of course
they can always be found on the roses, but here they also like to sun
themselves on the asparagus. Last week they were hanging out on the liatris
but as the flowers started to open this week, they've abandoned those for the
most part. They also love the crepe myrtles, both the leaves and the flower
buds.
One year they feasted on the dawn redwood, darned near killed it. It's still
very scraggly from their feeding. But it was only that one year, not before
nor since.
Bill Lee
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