
Use these tips to get rid of Japanese beetles.
How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles in the Garden
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Those durn Japanese beetles are making their summer pilgrimage to my gardens again. Because my gardens are filled with pollinators, I cannot spray with anything that’s truly effective.
So twice a day I roam the garden paths with a jar filled with soapy water. It takes stealth, but I get great satisfaction tapping singles and mating pairs into my jar. A few escape but most succumb and by summer’s end my jar will be full.
Along with my rose bush, they seem attracted to the leaves of my flowering ginger and lemon balm flowers, which the bees love.
I view it as a meditative time spent among my herbs and flowers. And it’s highly satisfying seeing my jar fill.
All the literature I've found says they were only on the East coast and midwest, but I am in the Silicon Valley... I found about 26 in the one garden bed i ended digging up... unfortunately my other two garden beds already had seedlings growing - so I was too late to get them out of those. :'(
Based on this, I think they are now all over the States - very very sad
Japanese Beatles ate my 4 o'clock s. Don't think that they were deterred by them one bit. I guess I should be glad they eat the leaves of my fruit trees and not the fruit. They love the cherry trees the most. You might try planting a cherry tree, I have found if they can eat cherry tree leaves and grape vines they tend to leave the rest more or less alone.
I'm removing my Linden Tree due to Japanese Beetles and replacing with a Red Maple.
Do I need to treat the soil before planting the new tree?
These beetles are destroying a rose of sharon tree I've had in my yard for over 10 years. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with this pest. I've been knocking them into an empty plastic bottle with some water in it and drowning them. They are pretty easy to catch but so so many! I've pulled up all the grass in my yard this year and have mulched everywhere, I'm wondering if this contributed to the beetle problem?
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