Re: Japanese Beetles & wild grape vines
- Subject: Re: Japanese Beetles & wild grape vines
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 22:31:14 EDT
In a message dated 5/6/02 9:23:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
> The first adults hatch here about July 4th and
> continue maturing and appearing until the middle of September. There is no
> letup in the daily appearances. You cannot kill them as you have to do it
> daily. With the roses gone from the food supply and wild grapes now
> planted
> on the fence lines the only plant left liked by the JB's is any thing
> related
> to a hollyhock. We leave them alone on the grape vines occasionally
> picking
> off a coffee can full. The grape vines as a trap plant has been the most
> helpful thing we have done. We don't have any neighbors so the JB's here
> are
> all ours. Wild grape vines are very weedy so it is a good match, they are
> absolutely covered with beetles, a somewhat disgusting sight.
===>That's about the season here in Cincinnati too. We have a lot of wild
grape vines in the woods around us, but the foliage is way up in the trees so
I don't have to look at it. But if the JBs are all meeting and feeding up
there, then my slim rose pickings into the water jars isn't really doing
anything very effective, is it? But it makes me feel good.
Bill Lee
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