The recent bug threads have me asking what is this ???
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These things are eating my white birch and grapes alive!!!!
Thats the booger eatin my green beans!!! I think hes a japanese beetle....
Right on Buzz.
Janpaneese Beatle
Pick up a bottle of Saven or Seven? Works great on stopping these critters.
They also make traps for them. We have three hanging around our peach and pear tree orchard and they are saggin several feet from the weight of all the dead critters.
Those things love rose bushes. When I had a garden, the beetles would go to the multiflora roses and stay out of my garden.
The only problem with traps is that it attracts beetles to the area. If you didn't have much of a problem before, the traps can make it worse.
I don't think it can get too much worse, there are so many in the white birch that they have moved on to the grapes.
Where do you get the traps from. It's worth it to me to try a couple--------------dozen or so! ;D
Furby
Get some sevin powder or liquid on those grapes.....stat!!!
It will stop them instantly on anything...promise ;)
walmart has it bout 5-7 bucks
Will do! ;) I think I have some...................someplace. :-/
We have been fighting these bugs for a couple of weeks, the pool would be covered with them.
We bought a trap from walmart, but the bag would fill up within a couple of hours, so we just started using the walmart bag on the trap instead ;D
we would get about 3lbs of bugs in a day and you have to change the bag almost everyday or it will stink real bad.
It seems like for the last 3 or 4 days the swarming has let up, mabe mateing season is over.
unless you are passionate about it, you will never destroy bugs, any bug.the only thing you can do is get them tree to tree.
the best thing to do, furby, is to move to a colder location, like my hemlock hollow, for instance. bet kevin never messed with them bugs! some critters dont like forty below! :)
We have alder leaf beetles up this way. The larvae pretty much wipe out small patches of alder. The adult is metallic green. We also have leave minors in white birches that eat the epidermic layers off the leaves. They aren't real bad this year, but I have some. The colorada potato beetle numbers are down this year since we had light snow and deep frosts last winter which bites quite of few of the buggers. There were some in the garden this spring which took off when they found out I didn't have any spuds for'm. The European Earwig is what eats my rose leaves at night, dang things. We never had these things 15 years ago, came in on some imported bush or crate I suppose.
cheers