Are the Japanese Beetles Ravaging Your Yard Too?

Most years we have to kill them from our Hibiscus plants. This year they are about to kill one of my smaller trees and the neighbors birch. They are also infesting the ivy on the garage. So bad that when I sprayed them with an insect repellent attached to the hose, they swarmed out of there. The repellent doesn’t kill them, but it does render them immobile long enough to starve or bake in the sun…I hope.

I need to get a beetle bag, but they are flying off the shelf. I’ll post pictures as soon as one fills up. Although I just read the bag may hurt more than help because they attract more from further away who feed a lot by the time they get trapped.

Apparently like June bugs, they are currently in the adult life cycle and will start dieing off soon. And I tell you what, they make the most of their adult life. Peak into any part of the ivy and it is literally a beetle orgy (Yes, I opened a door there).

I know they are bad all over, so I am wondering who else is being “bugged” by these monkeybutts.

The FW was telling me our birch tree was full of them.

I’m guessing next year we’ll have a house full of “stingless wasps”.

We have about 100 feet of grapes in the back yard and the beetles have about 60% of them destroyed. I have tried 7 and some other insect killer, but nothing seems to be helping.

They have left the raspberry bushes alone…..for now.

Are the beetles actually eating the leaves or is something else eating the leaves and the beetles are eating them?

They are here in IGH eating everything!

if u wanna get serious about killing these beetles, u need to find something like this chemical WARRIOR. sold only buy crop sprayers and dealers. only a tiny amount per gallon is needed and its a oily substance that stays on what u spray for maybe weeks. maybe a 8oz bottle would do u for the whole season. its like $300 a gallon, so u dont wanna waste any.
i used it on my giant pumpkins for vine borers and other gourds. i use the yellow/green traps also. last year i kept track on how many quarts of beetles i killed. we talking 8 gallons of dead beetles. magine how many new beetles that would produce the next year. but they just keep coming. i let my morning glories grow on fences and trees, they love them more than anything, then i spray them with the WARRIOR, it kills them within minutes of contact. now there may be other as good, i just dont know what it is but would be willing to try whatever its called. there here to stay and only getting worse.

They eat the soft material of the leaf and leave the veins.

here in Woodbury too. They are finishing off my River Birch and rose shrubs too. Looks like I’LL have less leaves to rake this fall.

I got one of the bags after finding a Home Depot that had some in stock. It has been out for an hour and there are about 2 dozen in there right now. I actually had one go in as I was assembling the kit.

The directions clearly state to place it down wind from your foliage you are protecting, so you intercept them, not attract them.

The problem is in my yard they are attacking 3 points. We are most concerned about the Hibiscus, so tonight in a dead wind I just placed it between the hibiscus and the other 2 points. The tree I just hope makes it without dieing from stress. The vines, well they can eat all they want of those, its that vine that loves to stick to stucco with those little suction cups.

At this point I am just running damage control.

Ahhhh

That explains the rose bushes looking very “twigged” out.

Dog

Pug, I think your tree will survive just fine. I have zero at my house since I moved to where I live now. When I was in madison, we got them by the millions. They would eat all the leaves off my neighbor’s Lindon (sp?) tree every year, and the next year it would always come back healthy.

Pug, I tried the traps a couple years ago. Sure I caught a lot of beetles but I also attracted all my neighbors beetles, which just made it much worst. I never had a problem with the beetles until my yuppie neighbor installed a underground watering system for his yard. Now every year the bettles ruin my roses,raspberries,and other plantings. The damn bugs seek out moisure,and from what I’ve read,they are hatching out of my neighbors moist yard. Damn bettles, damn yuppies!

They were thick on my cherry tree. Started with the cherries then moved to the leaves. Moderate damage to my crab apple. I noticed they love birches. I’m having good luck with fruit/vegetable pesticide to deter them. So far nothing on my garden or apple tree.

Got them for the first time this year. Defoliated a crab apple tree and a birch tree. They are leaving the ash and oaks alone.

-J.

This product gets rid of Jap Beetles among alot of other pest’s. Works fantastic, safe to use, and the price isn’t bad. I’ve been using it with good results this year for beetles, mites, aphids and grubs.

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