Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica)

[Jared77]

Good to know about what makes up the trap.

 

[catjac1975]

A gallon and a half???? Do you keep them next to the ice cream in the freezer? That's true chicken love!

They don't use poison in the traps. It is a pheremone attractant. The bugs fall into the bag which is constructed so that they can't fly out. I trapped and froze them this past summer. My chickens eat them frozen, but prefer them fresh. I still have about a gallon and a half of frozen JBs that I sprinkle in the chickens' food dish several times a week.
The few that did get on my pole beans ate voraciously, but there weren't very many.I do think the traps attract more than would normally be on my property. Don't know if I will do it again this summer. The thing the JBs liked most were my roses, tho.

 

[ducks4you]

I had some success last year planting 4 o'clocks in hanging pots. Japanese beetles love to eat the leaves...and then they die. You could hang a couple of baskets from your grape supports and see what happens. Keep them high bc they are also toxic to dogs and cats.

 

[Smart Red]

Do chickens eat them?

Yes, chickens love them, as do raccoons. The problem is I have to collect and serve the JBs. I use an organic soap so they are safe for the animals.

Love, Smart Red

 

[wsmoak]

milky spores are the way to go it mite take a year or so in the mean time treat with neem oil. tried those beatle traps for a couple years but all it did is bring them in from everywhere.

had to give up on growing grapes the deer new when we were going to pick a day ahead..... now growing blackberries..

The deer will also eat your blackberries! I was watching a bunch ripen on some new vines along our driveway last year thinking "Self, you need to put a net over those" every time I drove by them. I didn't get there fast enough and one morning, *all* of the berries were gone. This year, I have them netted and barricaded and I hope I get some berries to eat!

The Japanese beetles destroyed my raspberries last year. I don't use a lot of chemicals, but they were eating *all* of the new growth and I finally resorted to Sevin which got rid of them.

-Wendy

 

[majorcatfish]

milky spores are the way to go it mite take a year or so in the mean time treat with neem oil. tried those beatle traps for a couple years but all it did is bring them in from everywhere.

had to give up on growing grapes the deer new when we were going to pick a day ahead..... now growing blackberries..

The deer will also eat your blackberries! I was watching a bunch ripen on some new vines along our driveway last year thinking "Self, you need to put a net over those" every time I drove by them. I didn't get there fast enough and one morning, *all* of the berries were gone. This year, I have them netted and barricaded and I hope I get some berries to eat!

The Japanese beetles destroyed my raspberries last year. I don't use a lot of chemicals, but they were eating *all* of the new growth and I finally resorted to Sevin which got rid of them.

-Wendy

the deer have not touched them in 10 years. there's too much other stuff to eat that time of year the neighbors apples, pears, plums and of course their grapes,
the only thing that would graze on the berries was my black lab, if they were at her level it was fair game....I miss her

all my raspberries died a few years from crown borers and ever replanted.