We've waged war on the Japanese beetles

[canesisters]

I wonder....
If you took the plastic top part of those traps and hung it low in the chicken coop... would it still draw beetles from all over the area??? And would the chickens just stand around all day nabbing them off of the trap-top?????

 

[so lucky]

I'm thinking a more rigid funnel could be attached, to aim the bugs directly at the chickens as they fall from the trap part. More rigid so the chickens wouldn't destroy the bag/funnel/trap.
The bugs that get away would just go for the pheromones again right away. Just take a glass of wine and sit in a lawn chair and enjoy the show.

 

[baymule]

We have a security light that attracts June bugs, big fat brown beetles. Our dogs Polly and Parker snacked on them to the point that they pooped indigestible beetle parts. Both are now gone, so I guess the June bug population will enjoy a resurgence.

 

[flowerbug]

get a coathanger and grill 'em up some grub! (grubs...)

JB population here has been dealt good thwack lately. i did find some today when i was out weeding but not nearly as many as earlier in the week. have to get out early tomorrow and see who i missed. probably a few thousand given all the wild grape vines, soybeans and sod around us, not ever going to get them all, but i don't mind hand-picking them. something keeps eating their bodies i put out.