Interesting to know about disposing the damaged foliage because of that chemical compound. I would love a video on identifying common pests and their plant destruction patterns. You explain things so well!
I like to use a large old paint brush to brush them into the soap mixture. I always did it in the evening and then would sometimes fly away or into my face, so good to know to try it in the morning!
Incidentally, I have used milky spore the last two years in fall and spring. I have noticed improvement because the beetle damage isn’t as wide spread as it was before I used milky spore, but nothing is 100% effective. I’m going to try this method early in the morning. And I am going to trim my skeletonized leaves and blooms as well. Thank you for your help.
It's been a little over a month since I spied the first JB in my yard. I started going out every day, as many as ten times a day starting in the early morning to drop them into the soapy bucket. At the maximum infestation I would get over a hundred a day. Now I am down to under ten a day, thank goodness, I hate those things!!!
Great information. I did not know that you should remove the leaves. I went around midnight when I came home from work with a flash light and removed those nasty bugs. Extreme gardening😆 My neighbors probably thinking I am crazy😜
Early morning just while the dew is on the leaves. They are just not active enough to fly and their defense is falling to the ground. Small bucket underneath them with the soapy water only inches deep will drown hundreds.
Good info, especially about removing the damaged leaves. I actually live in Japan, and I know of no effective natural predators, at least not in my garden. These beetles destroy many of the leaves on my one grape vine and seriously damage other trees. The problem is the bucket system won’t work so well on taller trees. I have to kick the tree (yes, early morning!) or shake it vigorously and try and stomp on as many beetles as I.can before they hide.
We've found Milky Spore to be amazingly effective, but it only kills the beetle larvae. Great thing was, the moles all left as well! After 10 years of effectiveness, it's time to re-apply. We noticed a few again last year and I really regret not having re-applied it then! So, while we wait for the life cycle and nature to cooperate, it's great to know we can do this! I also didn't know about the advantage of getting them in the morning, or destroying the damaged leaves. Many thanks for posting this info.!
Thank you. Japanese Bettles have eaten my fruit trees, Japanese maples, grapes, and anything else they can get ahold of. This was great and very informative.
This has been my favorite video on the topic! My problem doesn’t seem immense at the moment but I’ll be on them first thing tomorrow morning. Japanese beetles be gone! I hate killing anything, but I feel a need to defend my garden before they kill it. Thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you for this video. My poor grapevines have been hit hard by these little stinkers the last few seasons. I've caught hundreds of the beetles and sent them into eternity. p..s. You're both knowledgeable and beautiful. What a great combination. :D
This helps a lot, Danielle. I'll start doing this in the morning, as I saw a couple of beetles on my roses yesterday. In the past couple of yeas, I've had a lot of assassin bugs in my garden and noticed that the Japanese beetle population has gone down significantly.
My Japanese beetle population is down a lot as I’ve been doing this for years. Now we have spotted lantern fly nymphs all over the place and they hop so fast it’s difficult to catch them, but I purchased a little butterfly net at the dollar store and I’ve caught and killed so many; I’m on a mission 😂. Thanks for the informative videos, love your channel ❤️
So helpful! Thank you for these essential tools & knowledge. You’re the only channel covering such important knowledge. I would love to learn more! You’re amazing
If you lay a grub control in spring, it will kill larva, and adults can’t form that’s why milky spore works so well. Keeps developing spores that kill grubs for 8-10 years
Yes, that’s the method my grandpa always used on them. He used Palmolive, but it worked. It was part of my summer vacation-helping him in the garden. 😅
I did this for years and still they kept returning in huge numbers. Because the beetles wind up infesting a very, very large area (in my case our entire neighbourhood, including parks and trails) trying to control them on one small property doesn’t really work - at least it didn’t for me. I finally had to get rid of the JB’s two favourite plants - my roses and grape vines. Because they eat the rose blooms, there was almost no way to rid blooms of the beetles without basically ruining them - and so what’s the point of roses? However, you can spray any foliage plants the JB eats with a homemade soap spray, especially when the leaves are out of reach because of the height of a vine for instance. I discovered this actually kills the beetles, not instantly, but after a few minutes, perhaps because they can no longer fly once their bodies are drenched in soapy water. Then you can knock the dead bodies off. Still, they will just keep coming back if your general area is host to a significant population of these highly destructive pests. But with no roses and no grape vines this year, I’ve picked off about a dozen beetles from other plants (echinacea, a day lily and basil) instead of the usual hundreds, if not thousands that my garden has hosted for the past 10 years.
If you leave that bucket of bugs at the base of the shrub the dead and dying insects scare away any other beetles near by. I pick a few bugs off my rosebush in june and leave the jar inconspicuously under the rose bush and the scent of their dead is repelling to them.
I think my dead beetles actually attracted them. I was dumping them in the Lily's and all of a sudden I had an infestation there. They never touched the Lily's before.
In the early - mid '80's I lived in southern Va west of Norfolk. We had massive infestation. I used Milky Spore on my lawn, the mole tracks (they eat the grubs) stopped at the edge of the lawn. I had none.
Thanks for posting. They arrived in my yard about 2 weeks ago. They are feasting on my Purple Pillar hibiscus. At first I was squimish to touch them. Now I’m 😡 they are eating my plants which is my time and money. I’ve been putting my gloves on and swishing them because I have about two to three each day. If/when more come, I’ll be using the bucket method. I wondered about the milky spore.
dazzlensparkle I agree. After having Japanese beetles for the first year, I did my research. I found that several plants I have on my wish list are specimens they love. I’ve decided their beauty is not worth the headache.
Great!!!! I had just discovered myself about removing the damaged leaves and now, having done it, it appears to improve the situation. So sad to come back to our apple trees after being too busy to see them - they are about half skeletonized. Yikes! Warm regards Jennie
Neem oil and diatomaceous earth. I use them both with relatively good results. Mostly on raspberries, early morning or late evening (right around sunset). Use only food grade DE. Good luck with your project !
@@watermelonlalala - yes, I do . I use a “rose and plant duster hand sprayer” and dust entire plant, including soil around the plant as well. Same with the Neem oil . I use 2 gallon hand sprayer and spray entire plant including soil around it. Good luck with your gardening !
@@RedeemedbyHisLove - if it’s a smaller production (let’s say a 10 gallon planter) I would use a physical barrier, like a fine mash. Basil is used directly and freshness of it is most important. This year I upgraded a notch to more professional, concentrated Neem tree extracts. It’s price of $250 per gallon is quite high, but it does last a long time. I stopped using the diatomaceous earth. It’s not as effective as milky spores, which is the best product for preventing Japanese Beetles ( lasts up to 10 years). Good luck with your gardening projects ! Stay healthy !
I have a problem with my grapevine thank you for getting to the point. some people on here just talk and talk and never say anything😂.also i didnt know about removing the leaves.
Thanks for your info; I have another suggestion for an 'organic way' of removing Japanese beetles: use a cordless handheld vacuum blower and just suck the beetles into the vacuum blower, at the end of the day dump the catch into soap water. This method is helpful when you have to reach a tall plant or when working on asparagus plant where the beetles might be buried inside the foliage of the plant and hard to reach with a bucket of soap water.
I have zillions of those bugs. My rose bushes and plants are many. Also tall and I am a shorty. I cannot get to those leaves and bugs. I need a spray or something. I have tried the traps and they only invite all in the vicinity to come over.
I do this every morning but I pick them off and feed the beetles to my chickens. Unfortunately, as the day progresses, the beetles keep on coming all day! There's just too many and the damage has already been done before you can even get to them. My chickens are sick of them too!
I have so many that I was thinking about putting soapy water in my SHOP VAC to get. I have noticed that they are very sluggish in the EVENING and they are easier to catch.
I have never seen such a bad summer last season 2023. I do a walk about in the morning to dump them in soapy water. I continue this process in the evening. My chickens love them- so maybe everyone needs chickens lol. We live on the outskirts of woodland and they defoliate trees - I feel like every year it gets worse. My poor ROSES :(
Just seen your video. We live in Hungary and have had a problem with these little critters for the past 2 yrs. Not known how to tackle them until now. Always wondered what those big fat grubs we kept finding in the garden. Didnt realise they were Japanese beetle larvae. Thanks for your video, I'll go and prepare my bucket of soapy water. Would spraying themwith soap water work too? Because some are on high branches 😮😮😮😢😮
I live on a few acres. There is a huge wild blackberry patch where the Japanese Beetles are having their orgy and no way I could ever thump them into soapy water 😞 They are eating my crepe myrtles, including the black diamond crepes, my Kwanzaa and Yoshino cherry trees!! There’s no way I can climb the trees to get to where they’re at! I’ll probably have to go the non-organic route to get rid of them.
This is the first year I have ever seen one of these bugs, but they are everywhere. at least a thousand of them on my grapes and cherries. The neighbors have old grape vines and they are on them like flies . How does one go about getting their neighbor to care, as they don't harvest anything.
June bugs are different. They come at night and swarm around porch lights. They are more brown colored. The Japanese beetles are black and out during the day.
Shelby Ramirez No, it wasn’t the brown hard back ones that come out at night around the porch light. The ones she called June bugs were always all over her blooming shrubs. They were Japanese beetles.
Nope! June bugs are different and not destructive life the Japanese Beetle which came to this country in a flower pot.. Just noticed here... We have the last same name. interesting.?
From an old gardeners guide: June/May Beetles, Phyllaphaga Sp. Night flying beetles. Rarely feed on garden vegetable plants. Grubs eat roots and underground stems of corn, potato and strawberry. Grubs resemble Japanese Beetle grubs. Japanese Beetles, Papilla japonica. Metallic green beetles. Been in the Eastern states since the seventies, at least. Attack leaves, flowers, fruits. Larva chew on roots. Spade deeply to get the grubs in spring. Hand pick the the adults. (Same for both.)
I have done the soapy water method but they love the same floweres than the bees and ended up killing few bees. The bes method was the japanese beetle traps. I place one at the end of my back yard where I didn't have many flowers and in one day they could fill have of the bag. I would take the bags every evening and dumped them in the toilet and place the bag again its place. I use to see millions of them every year but now is July and today I saw 4 and killed them with an Spectrizide spray.
Thay are destroying my rose bushes . Thay have gotten into the rose buds and open rose's and is killing them ! 🤬🤨 It's terrible a completely frustrating. 😤😓 I'm going to try this . Thank you so much for this video 😊👍
It's probably not organic, but I heard that something called "Milky Spore" can get rid of them. It's a powder and each dab of powder covers a 4 ft area. Doug & Stacy's Homestead has a video about it.
Just saw this and have a terrible time with Japanese beetles. I ordered a huge amount of tulle and covered my most eaten plants for 6 weeks. I have planted garlic around my fruit trees. They really hate garlic.
Thank you! Here in Colorado Front Range we’ve only seen them for a few years but it’s enough to make a gardener cry. Info from reliable sources is vague and sometimes conflicting. And..... they DO bite! A friend and I were swarmed after using a “good smelling” insect repellent and they bit. Hurts but doesn’t last.
I use a spray can of paint any color fast drying varnish spray works best spray it they cant move,i got rid of them 5yrs ago and they are coming back again. I was getting hundreds a day for a couple yrs,now they are hitting my roses and grape vines.
This is the same way I handle my beetle infestation except I never realized the laced leaves would produce a chemical reaction that would draw in the beetles. Here is a thought I have had for years... IF the government or community would give out traps to EVERYONE we could gather enough of the beetles to eliminate them totally.. One person here and there are only draws them to their yard and it will not do it.. Oh, and I use a wooden back scratcher to help shake them off into a fairly small bucket that I can get back into my shrubs underneath them. I average over a hundred a day drowned in the soapy water I just flush down the drain.
actually, I watched a wildlife government lecture where they put japanese beetle traps in a grid with 1 mile spacing between each trap and eliminated the entire population in the entire STATE within about 1.5 years.
My leaves aren’t skeletonized like yours. Still pretty whole, with some holes. Should I still remove? There is a lot on the top of my tomatillo plant, so I just worry about removing all those leaves.
What would happen if we let just them skeletonize everything for the 1 1/2 to 2 months? Could the vines regrow new leaves in time to make grapes for the season?
Good to know about removing the damaged leaves. We’ve been using soapy water but didn’t know that leaving the leaves would invite more beetles.
I strangely had a feeling about this and started to remove them. Looks like I was right!
Same. I had no idea the damaged leaves attracted more!
Interesting to know about disposing the damaged foliage because of that chemical compound. I would love a video on identifying common pests and their plant destruction patterns. You explain things so well!
I like to use a large old paint brush to brush them into the soap mixture. I always did it in the evening and then would sometimes fly away or into my face, so good to know to try it in the morning!
Paint brush is a great idea!
See? This is why this channel is MUST WATCHING! Today I took a class on Japanese beetles! Bravo! Well done, Danielle!
Beneficial nematodes feed on beetle larvae. They saved my garden this year.
Incidentally, I have used milky spore the last two years in fall and spring. I have noticed improvement because the beetle damage isn’t as wide spread as it was before I used milky spore, but nothing is 100% effective. I’m going to try this method early in the morning. And I am going to trim my skeletonized leaves and blooms as well. Thank you for your help.
It's been a little over a month since I spied the first JB in my yard. I started going out every day, as many as ten times a day starting in the early morning to drop them into the soapy bucket. At the maximum infestation I would get over a hundred a day. Now I am down to under ten a day, thank goodness, I hate those things!!!
Great information. I did not know that you should remove the leaves. I went around midnight when I came home from work with a flash light and removed those nasty bugs. Extreme gardening😆 My neighbors probably thinking I am crazy😜
Early morning just while the dew is on the leaves. They are just not active enough to fly and their defense is falling to the ground. Small bucket underneath them with the soapy water only inches deep will drown hundreds.
Good info, especially about removing the damaged leaves. I actually live in Japan, and I know of no effective natural predators, at least not in my garden. These beetles destroy many of the leaves on my one grape vine and seriously damage other trees. The problem is the bucket system won’t work so well on taller trees. I have to kick the tree (yes, early morning!) or shake it vigorously and try and stomp on as many beetles as I.can before they hide.
We've found Milky Spore to be amazingly effective, but it only kills the beetle larvae. Great thing was, the moles all left as well! After 10 years of effectiveness, it's time to re-apply. We noticed a few again last year and I really regret not having re-applied it then! So, while we wait for the life cycle and nature to cooperate, it's great to know we can do this! I also didn't know about the advantage of getting them in the morning, or destroying the damaged leaves. Many thanks for posting this info.!
Watch several videos on this beetle and yours was the most helpful to me. Thanks for taking time to share your expertise.
Hello from London,England.Im really enjoying your gardening video.Thanks for sharing it with us
Thank you. Japanese Bettles have eaten my fruit trees, Japanese maples, grapes, and anything else they can get ahold of.
This was great and very informative.
This has been my favorite video on the topic! My problem doesn’t seem immense at the moment but I’ll be on them first thing tomorrow morning. Japanese beetles be gone! I hate killing anything, but I feel a need to defend my garden before they kill it. Thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you for this video. My poor grapevines have been hit hard by these little stinkers the last few seasons. I've caught hundreds of the beetles and sent them into eternity. p..s. You're both knowledgeable and beautiful. What a great combination. :D
This helps a lot, Danielle. I'll start doing this in the morning, as I saw a couple of beetles on my roses yesterday. In the past couple of yeas, I've had a lot of assassin bugs in my garden and noticed that the Japanese beetle population has gone down significantly.
My Japanese beetle population is down a lot as I’ve been doing this for years. Now we have spotted lantern fly nymphs all over the place and they hop so fast it’s difficult to catch them, but I purchased a little butterfly net at the dollar store and I’ve caught and killed so many; I’m on a mission 😂. Thanks for the informative videos, love your channel ❤️
Great tip with the butterfly net for spotted lantern flys! The ones here are starting to turn red - they seem alot harder to smash now ...
So helpful! Thank you for these essential tools & knowledge. You’re the only channel covering such important knowledge. I would love to learn more! You’re amazing
Great info! I did not know that about the leaves. Thank you!!!
Didn't know about the need to remove the skeletonized leaves. I'll make this part of my beetle battle. Thank you.
I don’t have Japanese beetles in my garden that I know off, but this is my first year gardening. I’m glad I know what to do if I do see them. Thanks
Very helpful, Danielle! THANK YOU!
Thanks! Very helpful and interesting! You are enjoyable to watch !🙂
Well done, thanks. I have been doing something similar but never thought about doing it in the morning, which is a great tip.
I didn't know that the damaged leaves would attract more. Thank you for that tip and the tip of not putting them into the compost pile as well.
Hi Danielle, thanks for the great information!
If you lay a grub control in spring, it will kill larva, and adults can’t form that’s why milky spore works so well. Keeps developing spores that kill grubs for 8-10 years
So helpful! I didn’t know about throwing the leaves away.
Yes, that’s the method my grandpa always used on them. He used Palmolive, but it worked. It was part of my summer vacation-helping him in the garden. 😅
It is easy certain times of day.. ty for the heads up on removing injured leaves!
I did this for years and still they kept returning in huge numbers. Because the beetles wind up infesting a very, very large area (in my case our entire neighbourhood, including parks and trails) trying to control them on one small property doesn’t really work - at least it didn’t for me. I finally had to get rid of the JB’s two favourite plants - my roses and grape vines. Because they eat the rose blooms, there was almost no way to rid blooms of the beetles without basically ruining them - and so what’s the point of roses? However, you can spray any foliage plants the JB eats with a homemade soap spray, especially when the leaves are out of reach because of the height of a vine for instance. I discovered this actually kills the beetles, not instantly, but after a few minutes, perhaps because they can no longer fly once their bodies are drenched in soapy water. Then you can knock the dead bodies off. Still, they will just keep coming back if your general area is host to a significant population of these highly destructive pests. But with no roses and no grape vines this year, I’ve picked off about a dozen beetles from other plants (echinacea, a day lily and basil) instead of the usual hundreds, if not thousands that my garden has hosted for the past 10 years.
so just soapy water in the morning?
I used beer and it worked
I love these bug and diseases Id and management videos..
Well put together and clear demonstration. Thank you!
If you leave that bucket of bugs at the base of the shrub the dead and dying insects scare away any other beetles near by. I pick a few bugs off my rosebush in june and leave the jar inconspicuously under the rose bush and the scent of their dead is repelling to them.
I think my dead beetles actually attracted them. I was dumping them in the Lily's and all of a sudden I had an infestation there. They never touched the Lily's before.
Great information. Thanks for all your great advice!
In the early - mid '80's I lived in southern Va west of Norfolk. We had massive infestation. I used Milky Spore on my lawn, the mole tracks (they eat the grubs) stopped at the edge of the lawn. I had none.
Thanks for sharing this information.
Thanks so much, Danielle. Helpful as always!
Good ideas, I did the same way as you, the difference is I use vinegar, and results the same. Thank you for sharing.
Great information! Thank you!
Thanks for posting. They arrived in my yard about 2 weeks ago. They are feasting on my Purple Pillar hibiscus. At first I was squimish to touch them. Now I’m 😡 they are eating my plants which is my time and money. I’ve been putting my gloves on and swishing them because I have about two to three each day. If/when more come, I’ll be using the bucket method. I wondered about the milky spore.
My garden was happy until i planted Rose of Sharon. The Japanese Beetle started coming. I regret my plant choice.
dazzlensparkle I agree. After having Japanese beetles for the first year, I did my research. I found that several plants I have on my wish list are specimens they love. I’ve decided their beauty is not worth the headache.
@@rdarrett3635 please please share the specimen list that these suckers enjoy! Thank you :)
dazzlensparkle This is one of many lists I found.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.almanac.com/content/japanese-beetles-best-and-worst-plants%3famp
@@rdarrett3635 Thank you so so much!
Thank you!!! This was so informative!
Great!!!! I had just discovered myself about removing the damaged leaves and now, having done it, it appears to improve the situation.
So sad to come back to our apple trees after being too busy to see them - they are about half skeletonized. Yikes!
Warm regards Jennie
Neem oil and diatomaceous earth. I use them both with relatively good results. Mostly on raspberries, early morning or late evening (right around sunset). Use only food grade DE.
Good luck with your project !
Do you sprinkle the DE all over the plant?
@@watermelonlalala - yes, I do . I use a “rose and plant duster hand sprayer” and dust entire plant, including soil around the plant as well.
Same with the Neem oil . I use 2 gallon hand sprayer and spray entire plant including soil around it.
Good luck with your gardening !
Would this be good for basil plants etc. I hate spraying with soapy water etc afraid it will make my herbs taste soapy.
@@RedeemedbyHisLove - if it’s a smaller production (let’s say a 10 gallon planter) I would use a physical barrier, like a fine mash. Basil is used directly and freshness of it is most important.
This year I upgraded a notch to more professional, concentrated Neem tree extracts. It’s price of $250 per gallon is quite high, but it does last a long time. I stopped using the diatomaceous earth. It’s not as effective as milky spores, which is the best product for preventing Japanese Beetles ( lasts up to 10 years).
Good luck with your gardening projects !
Stay healthy !
@@mar1video May I ask what the neem tree extract you got that is more concentrated?
Very helpful. Thank you.
Excellent video, thanks!
My chickens love them for a treat.
Mine too, but if using the soap methods i toss them.
I have a problem with my grapevine thank you for getting to the point. some people on here just talk and talk and never say anything😂.also i didnt know about removing the leaves.
Great info! Thanks 😊
I have 21 concord grape plants and blackberry plants and this does very well .
Your style and inflections are just like Matt Risinger who has a TH-cam channel building homes. :)
So helpful! First time experiencing this and thankfully only just my grapevine got attacked.
Thanks for your info; I have another suggestion for an 'organic way' of removing Japanese beetles: use a cordless handheld vacuum blower and just suck the beetles into the vacuum blower, at the end of the day dump the catch into soap water. This method is helpful when you have to reach a tall plant or when working on asparagus plant where the beetles might be buried inside the foliage of the plant and hard to reach with a bucket of soap water.
Thank you! They are eating my Texas star hibiscus and my roses. I know what I’ll be doing in the morning!!
Thank you so much, great advice. 🌸 🦋🌺
I have zillions of those bugs. My rose bushes and plants are many. Also tall and I am a shorty. I cannot get to those leaves and bugs. I need a spray or something. I have tried the traps and they only invite all in the vicinity to come over.
Have you try Neem oil ? Or diatomaceous earth? I use both with relatively good results.
Good luck !
I do this every morning but I pick them off and feed the beetles to my chickens. Unfortunately, as the day progresses, the beetles keep on coming all day! There's just too many and the damage has already been done before you can even get to them. My chickens are sick of them too!
I have so many that I was thinking about putting soapy water in my SHOP VAC to get. I have noticed that they are very sluggish in the EVENING and they are easier to catch.
Good idea with the shop vac if the plant can take it. We were using shop vacs to collect spotted lantern fly at the farm I manage.
Thank you! Very helpful!
I have never seen such a bad summer last season 2023. I do a walk about in the morning to dump them in soapy water. I continue this process in the evening. My chickens love them- so maybe everyone needs chickens lol. We live on the outskirts of woodland and they defoliate trees - I feel like every year it gets worse. My poor ROSES :(
Just seen your video. We live in Hungary and have had a problem with these little critters for the past 2 yrs. Not known how to tackle them until now. Always wondered what those big fat grubs we kept finding in the garden. Didnt realise they were Japanese beetle larvae. Thanks for your video, I'll go and prepare my bucket of soapy water. Would spraying themwith soap water work too? Because some are on high branches 😮😮😮😢😮
Thank you for this video! I’ve got them bad this year💔
I live on a few acres. There is a huge wild blackberry patch where the Japanese Beetles are having their orgy and no way I could ever thump them into soapy water 😞 They are eating my crepe myrtles, including the black diamond crepes, my Kwanzaa and Yoshino cherry trees!! There’s no way I can climb the trees to get to where they’re at! I’ll probably have to go the non-organic route to get rid of them.
liquid Sevin in a good quality spray bottle during the day with the spray nozzle adjusted to more of a squirt than a spray will kill them.
I use a shop vac with water and soap.
This is the first year I have ever seen one of these bugs, but they are everywhere. at least a thousand of them on my grapes and cherries. The neighbors have old grape vines and they are on them like flies . How does one go about getting their neighbor to care, as they don't harvest anything.
My Flowtron bug zapper slows them down. 18 - 22 a night. The zapper sits on a crate with a pan of soapy water under it.
Thank You Very Much!!!
It works Great Doc
I’ve been squishing the beetles, but the soapy water sounds a lot better.
Thank Ü...they are all over my 🍇 grapes. I’m going to give some Beatles a morning bubble bath 🛀
I wish i had time for all of that.
Oh, I dread seeing those beetles come June. My grandmother called them June bugs.
Yep, same here😄
June bugs are different. They come at night and swarm around porch lights. They are more brown colored. The Japanese beetles are black and out during the day.
Shelby Ramirez No, it wasn’t the brown hard back ones that come out at night around the porch light. The ones she called June bugs were always all over her blooming shrubs. They were Japanese beetles.
Nope! June bugs are different and not destructive life the Japanese Beetle which came to this country in a flower pot.. Just noticed here... We have the last same name. interesting.?
From an old gardeners guide: June/May Beetles, Phyllaphaga Sp. Night flying beetles. Rarely feed on garden vegetable plants. Grubs eat roots and underground stems of corn, potato and strawberry. Grubs resemble Japanese Beetle grubs. Japanese Beetles, Papilla japonica. Metallic green beetles. Been in the Eastern states since the seventies, at least. Attack leaves, flowers, fruits. Larva chew on roots. Spade deeply to get the grubs in spring. Hand pick the the adults. (Same for both.)
They do pinch here in Iowa. Remind me of June bugs.
I never knew that about the milky spore results! Thank you. I just saved money not buying more.
I have a small pond. The fish love eating beetles that I catch. So, they don't go to waste.
I have done the soapy water method but they love the same floweres than the bees and ended up killing few bees. The bes method was the japanese beetle traps.
I place one at the end of my back yard where I didn't have many flowers and in one day they could fill have of the bag. I would take the bags every evening and dumped them in the toilet and place the bag again its place. I use to see millions of them every year but now is July and today I saw 4 and killed them with an Spectrizide spray.
Are more beetles attracted by the scent the beetles give off? What about the dead beetles? Do they give off any odor that might attract more beetles?
Just in case - been flushing the dead beetles AND the soapy water down the toilet rather than risking the scent attracting more
Thay are destroying my rose bushes . Thay have gotten into the rose buds and open rose's and is killing them ! 🤬🤨
It's terrible a completely frustrating. 😤😓
I'm going to try this .
Thank you so much for this video 😊👍
It's probably not organic, but I heard that something called "Milky Spore" can get rid of them. It's a powder and each dab of powder covers a 4 ft area. Doug & Stacy's Homestead has a video about it.
Just saw this and have a terrible time with Japanese beetles. I ordered a huge amount of tulle and covered my most eaten plants for 6 weeks. I have planted garlic around my fruit trees. They really hate garlic.
Thank you! Here in Colorado Front Range we’ve only seen them for a few years but it’s enough to make a gardener cry. Info from reliable sources is vague and sometimes conflicting. And..... they DO bite! A friend and I were swarmed after using a “good smelling” insect repellent and they bit. Hurts but doesn’t last.
Very helpful information. Thank you .
Very good ideas 💤🖐atsuuup 👍
Those nasty things. I altered what I planted this year to limit things I know they feed on. Great advice for everyone on the searching using "edu" :)
If my Rose Bush is kept in an enclosed screened porch, will it still attract beetles?
Great vid.Going to try….Little suckes are killing my willow tree..🤬
i am in love😍 good video btw lol
Chickens love these! Freeze them
For a cool summer treat! #foodisfree
What do you do for shrubs such as crepe myrtle’s that are tall?
I use a spray can of paint any color fast drying varnish spray works best spray it they cant move,i got rid of them 5yrs ago and they are coming back again. I was getting hundreds a day for a couple yrs,now they are hitting my roses and grape vines.
7 Dust works good too
Thanks for the info.
Thank you I will try this
Thanks for the info!😊
This was very helpful! Could you do a video on Spotted Lantern Fly? We have an infestation on our grape vine.
I certainly can Alex!
Thank you for the informative video. Do you have one to combat Spider Mites?
Thank you because these beetles are so destructive!
This is the same way I handle my beetle infestation except I never realized the laced leaves would produce a chemical reaction that would draw in the beetles. Here is a thought I have had for years... IF the government or community would give out traps to EVERYONE we could gather enough of the beetles to eliminate them totally.. One person here and there are only draws them to their yard and it will not do it.. Oh, and I use a wooden back scratcher to help shake them off into a fairly small bucket that I can get back into my shrubs underneath them. I average over a hundred a day drowned in the soapy water I just flush down the drain.
I agree. It’s needs to be something organized by each town and city. Traps could be placed in each city tree along streets and strategically in parks.
actually, I watched a wildlife government lecture where they put japanese beetle traps in a grid with 1 mile spacing between each trap and eliminated the entire population in the entire STATE within about 1.5 years.
is beetle trap with lure ok? some say it attracts more beetles that it traps?
My leaves aren’t skeletonized like yours. Still pretty whole, with some holes. Should I still remove? There is a lot on the top of my tomatillo plant, so I just worry about removing all those leaves.
What would happen if we let just them skeletonize everything for the 1 1/2 to 2 months? Could the vines regrow new leaves in time to make grapes for the season?