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If there's one insect that causes
great fear in the hearts of almost every gardener, it has to be Japanese beetles.
Japanese beetle is a voracious feeder on a varieties of trees, shrubs, garden flowers and here you
can see on roses is just covering these roses
and feeding up on the
buds of the plant
basically reducing them to nothing.
Japanese beetles are an insect that in some areas of the country you see a lot of them, some
areas you've seen nothing
and so it varies depending upon where you live.
Japanese beetles are starting to appear
somewhere around the latter part of June, first of July so right now they're very heavy.
Folks have a variety of ways of dealing with them
and we're gonna kind of just talk about a couple. One of them if you only have a few beetles on a few
plants one of the most efficient ways is to go around and basically hand pick them.
Basically taking the beetles and then dropping them into mason jar or coffee can that you have filed with
soapy water
takes care of the beetle population.
This would have to be done on a
daily basis cause they fly in from all over the place
and they will then feed on your rose plants or other plants that you have in the garden.
Another way to deal with them is through the use of an insecticide that's highly effective.
Sevin is still the suggested insecticide to use to protect your plants.
Reapply on probably a five to seven day basis and it protects the plant fairly well.
The one method that's really, highly suspect is the Japanese beetle trap.
If you were to put a Japanese beetle trap within the garden, you'd probably have more beetles
than if the trap was not there. It's a pheromone. It draws beetles to it.
When it draws beetles to it
the beetles kind of stop off for lunch or dinner at the plant
and then it might to the Japanese beetle trap.
So the best place for a Japanese beetle trap is actually in your neighbor's yard if he'll so allow it.
Otherwise
I would probably stay with either the hand picking
or the application of an approved insecticide.
Japanese beetles are very easy to identify.
They're these copper-colored beetles.
As you can see when you touch them they do either fall off the plant or fly, so they do fly in
from great distances.