The JBs are here! The JBs are here!

[thistlebloom]

Haha! That's what I was going to suggest Jim, but didn't want y'all to think I wasn't neighborly....

 

[Smart Red]

I am reaching in the dark recesses of my feeble brain.......it's a looooong trip! I seem to remember reading in an organic magazine once to catch the bugs that are eating your garden and run them through a blender with water so they would liquidfy. Then strain and use the bug juice to spray the plants they are eating. It said it would repel the bugs. I have never done it because I never had enough bad bugs to catch and run them through the blender.

It was written up in The Organic Gardener back in the 70s-80s. I have used the method a few times for flowering plants, but didn't think I wanted to use it on foodstuffs.

 

[Smart Red]

No, no... don't put out JB traps in your yard. Go buy six or eight of them and give one or two each to you neighbors and tell them you got them at a yard sale for like nothing. Offer to set them out for them making sure you put them as far away from your yard as you can. Just make sure the ones you give them to live at least 100 yards away. Then sit back and within a day or two you won't see a JB anywhere in your yard or garden. Works every time.

If only I had the courage. . . I thought of that years ago -- actually the year after I put up those dratted traps in my yard. A work of advice DON'T DO IT! I rather figured I could put one in each cardinal direction about one mile away. They would be along the roadside rather than in people's yards.

 

[canesisters]

How far, do you suppose, a trap would have to be from the yard to lure them away????
My yard is surrounded by pastures. Small pastures... but still - not garden/yard. I could put them on the far fence line, which is .... maybe 100 yds away in each direction?

 

[JimWWhite]

I have one on my property now in the very NW corner which is where the prevailing winds come from. The garden is in the SE corner and it's well over 100 yards away. Since I put it up a week ago I've noticed a marked decrease in JBs in the garden. They're still a few in the asparagus ferns but I don't see any damage they're doing. But I don't see them eating up my beans and other plants like they were a week or so ago. And by this weekend or maybe early next week I'll have to replace the bag because it's getting full. I did talk Mike, my neighbor into getting a couple and he put them down well away from my property so they're probably drawing some of the JBs to them. But I believe a 100 yards wouldn't be a stretch at all for them to work.

 

[baymule]

Do electric bug zappers work on these things?