Allen. I put a bucket with two inches of water and Dawn dish washing soap on one trap this morning. This afternoon I counted over fifty beetles in the bucket. Great tip. Thanks for sharing .Keep the tips coming. Ernie
An air pocket forms around a beetles surface while underwater meaning they float and have oxygen if you aren't feeding chickens you can use soap to break that surface tension so they sink and die faster and wont pile up on the surface to escape
For me, I'd put the trap far from the trees I want to save, in fact, I think the instructions say not to put them near your fruit trees- anything they like to eat.
I think it would be best to put the Beatles into your yard waste not your lawn for they still have eggs and if it's this bad of it infestation you need to put down some milky spore I think it would help you out a lot better with this method that you have great video thank you
I've got husbanded blackberries and not far from them on another persons property are unkept wild blackberries. I was killing beetles constantly by hand and one day I went to the wild patch and couldn't believe the number of beetles on those plants. I bought ONE of the Spectracide beetle traps, placed it between the two patches and it was full of beetles by the end of the day; had to be a thousand of them in there. It didn't 'cure' the problem on the husbanded plants but it made a SIGNIFICANT difference in my beetle problem. There are now less beetles on the wild patch as well. And the attraction argument; BS. One attractor is the plants themselves and the trap a second. Exponentially more are going into the trap than onto my blackberries. AND I'm not constantly having to maintain a stupid bowl of dish washing detergent.
The grubs just ruined my lawn. I am putting out some milky spore tomorrow but It is all out war especially with a lazy slob neighbor that I have. What would you pick as the best time frame to place these traps / buckets out ? Thanks for the ideas Alan.
A big question I have is we have these in our pool. That’s the only big we really get in it. I remember our friends had these bag traps at their farm when I was a kid in the mid 1990s but couldn’t find these last summer until yesterday! Hanging these around the pool will help? I recall the farm we used to visit had a big number of these in each bag. Would an exterminator help as well? The beetles mostly go to the pool for water.
Certainly understand the concern about attracting new beetles. But I think traps take a lot of beetles out of circulation, preventing them from reproducing. The reproducing causes next year's "bigger crop" of beetles since each female can lay 40-60 eggs.
Every year I used them I got more beetles the following year. It got so bad that my neighbor's trees started suffering too. These might help some people but it made it so much worse for us.
I did this one time over ten years ago... I had a super mess.... 3 bags, 3 big totes with soapy water for instant drowming. Bury derp or dispose with trash. I also planted mint in many areas... Last year I saw my first japanese beetle in ~ ten years. I may have killed every Japanese beetle in town that first and only year that I used traps... Or the mint is repelling them...
Seems to me you would attract every japanese bettles in the area smack into your yard...when you're trying to do the exact opposite. Either pick on Neem Oil spray seems thd better solution.
That's true but if you did it at the early part of summer you can stop the spread of millions by killing them before they breed, helping your whole community.
I catch them with hands, millions, and....i have river with a lot of fish. You should see the fish how is eating them They attack most of rose hips, wild grapes, hazel nut tree, cripple myrtle tree, nettle, plum tree, evening primrose
Wow I’ve never seen so many beetles in one place in my life... I thought I had a lot of them!!! Lmao But I do have a question: don’t these traps attract more beetles into your yard than you would ordinarily have?
Just put the bag far away from anything you're trying to protect!!! They work really well!!!! I like to put my bags away from my yard and across the road from where I live. 😊🐞
I bought the trap last year and I have full bag every day. They come from all my neighbors property to my property, so my neighborhood was free of Japanese beetle except me. No same mistake this year. No thank you.
YES! While the bucket is a good idea, placing the lure near your plants attracts more beetles. Another video joked by suggesting giving the lure and trap to a neighbor so the beetles will go there instead. Good idea, but get it the heck away from your crops!
This a bad bad idea. It'll ATTRACT every beetle within miles of the bag and the bag will fill up fast. We tried this years ago with several bags and it was a nightmare!!
YES!!! It got so bad they ruined my neighbor's trees too!! Literally thousands of these damn things. We did this for a couple years and each subsequent year it got worse and worse. And for every beetle that makes it into the bag, just think of how many DON'T because they'd rather have your roses or the bag is too full after only 10 hours and you haven't changed it yet.
It's an attractant. You will bring more beetles to your location because of the scent. Do not hang it in your garden. Hang it a quarter mile away and treat the surrounding 1-acre ground with milky spore.
Allen. I put a bucket with two inches of water and Dawn dish washing soap on one trap this morning. This afternoon I counted over fifty beetles in the bucket. Great tip. Thanks for sharing .Keep the tips coming. Ernie
An air pocket forms around a beetles surface while underwater meaning they float and have oxygen if you aren't feeding chickens you can use soap to break that surface tension so they sink and die faster and wont pile up on the surface to escape
For me, I'd put the trap far from the trees I want to save, in fact, I think the instructions say not to put them near your fruit trees- anything they like to eat.
That's about the heaviest infestation of beetles I've ever seen. Yech!
Great idea, thanks so much for this fantastic video. Will follow your plan.
You sir are awesome! Thanks for sharing. That should get rid of a big chunk of beetles!
I think it would be best to put the Beatles into your yard waste not your lawn for they still have eggs and if it's this bad of it infestation you need to put down some milky spore I think it would help you out a lot better with this method that you have great video thank you
Great info! Thanks for sharing
Excellent tips! Thanks
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Problem with bag a bug, it actually attracts bugs from far away. You will have more beetles every year you use that product.
Yep. Can definitely vouch for that!
I've got husbanded blackberries and not far from them on another persons property are unkept wild blackberries. I was killing beetles constantly by hand and one day I went to the wild patch and couldn't believe the number of beetles on those plants. I bought ONE of the Spectracide beetle traps, placed it between the two patches and it was full of beetles by the end of the day; had to be a thousand of them in there. It didn't 'cure' the problem on the husbanded plants but it made a SIGNIFICANT difference in my beetle problem. There are now less beetles on the wild patch as well. And the attraction argument; BS. One attractor is the plants themselves and the trap a second. Exponentially more are going into the trap than onto my blackberries. AND I'm not constantly having to maintain a stupid bowl of dish washing detergent.
Wow! Thank you for posting this. I am pleased to have seen this. Great idea and video is well produced. Thank you, thank you.
Just the tip I was looking for !! Thanks
Good info sir, thank you
Grateful Thanks!!! I will be sharing the cache with my neighbor’s chickens 👍❤️
The grubs just ruined my lawn. I am putting out some milky spore tomorrow but It is all out war especially with a lazy slob neighbor that I have. What would you pick as the best time frame to place these traps / buckets out ? Thanks for the ideas Alan.
HANDS DOWN the best suggestion I have seen to get rid of those
d a m n bugs & excellent idea with the bucket! On my way to the store now! Thank you!
These make a GREAT treat for chickens!
Thank you for this practical idea. I agree though try a free standing pole away from your trees.
Thanks for the tip, I'm going to give this a try!
What about a slit in bag so they fall into bucket and save bag from filling up too much?
A big question I have is we have these in our pool. That’s the only big we really get in it. I remember our friends had these bag traps at their farm when I was a kid in the mid 1990s but couldn’t find these last summer until yesterday! Hanging these around the pool will help? I recall the farm we used to visit had a big number of these in each bag. Would an exterminator help as well? The beetles mostly go to the pool for water.
My chickens love them! watch out using them for fertilizer because they will attract more with their natural sent. compost pile works better.
i feel stupid asking but im assuming theyre dead when you give them to your chickens yes?
is there anything toxic with Spectracide attractant?
Certainly understand the concern about attracting new beetles. But I think traps take a lot of beetles out of circulation, preventing them from reproducing. The reproducing causes next year's "bigger crop" of beetles since each female can lay 40-60 eggs.
Every year I used them I got more beetles the following year. It got so bad that my neighbor's trees started suffering too.
These might help some people but it made it so much worse for us.
I did this one time over ten years ago... I had a super mess.... 3 bags, 3 big totes with soapy water for instant drowming. Bury derp or dispose with trash. I also planted mint in many areas... Last year I saw my first japanese beetle in ~ ten years. I may have killed every Japanese beetle in town that first and only year that I used traps... Or the mint is repelling them...
Love how casually he stood there with beetles all over his neck & shirt. 🤦🏻♂️
Yep because they do bite.
No hu
WHOA! Thank you! The bucket works perfectly just as you said.
Thank you.
Definitely going to give this a try. My poor grapevines are getting ravaged by these buggers.
@@mcconn746 Thanks. I’ve already done this and it’s working.
Awesome! 😁👍
holy shit.....he's loaded.....I'd fuckin move
great idea.
great freaking idea!!!
is Ringo in there ?
Thank you.
That was incredible. I will be putting out a bucket this afternoon.
Yours
Michael
And sure enough I watched as the beetles hit the side of my trap and then fell into the bucket. Fantastic.
Seems to me you would attract every japanese bettles in the area smack into your yard...when you're trying to do the exact opposite. Either pick on Neem Oil spray seems thd better solution.
That's true but if you did it at the early part of summer you can stop the spread of millions by killing them before they breed, helping your whole community.
Yep.
I catch them with hands, millions, and....i have river with a lot of fish. You should see the fish how is eating them
They attack most of rose hips, wild grapes, hazel nut tree, cripple myrtle tree, nettle, plum tree, evening primrose
Holy crap I thought I had them bad lol
was this filmed in 1989?
Sometimes the most simple things are the most brilliant, appreciate the tip.
That is ALOT of Beetles!
Your chickens will eat the dead ones too as long as they are reasonably fresh.
Wow I’ve never seen so many beetles in one place in my life... I thought I had a lot of them!!! Lmao
But I do have a question: don’t these traps attract more beetles into your yard than you would ordinarily have?
someone has to fight the war. neighbours should buy traps too.
YES!!!!
Do they ever stop showing up?
Yes, but their life-cycle has two waves of them occurring each summer, and each female can lay 50 eggs.
Dude that’s like 8 billion beetles holy fuck
Good lord
Don’t you just love globalism.
I get wasps and june bugs on my Asian Pears escpecially when it is hot. They destroy all of my fruit
Not sure who attacks first. The wasps or the June Bugs????
You Da Man! Bugman! (in a good way, not a Tom Delay Way ;~)
TY
What the!!!!!!!! Jesus and I thought i had a lot!!!!!
how do you dispose of those disgusting creatures.
Flush em.
😮😮😮😮
Happy chickens
That's insane
Just put the bag far away from anything you're trying to protect!!! They work really well!!!! I like to put my bags away from my yard and across the road from where I live. 😊🐞
just use the bucket directly.
I bought the trap last year and I have full bag every day. They come from all my neighbors property to my property, so my neighborhood was free of Japanese beetle except me. No same mistake this year. No thank you.
Instructions state to place 20ft downwind..NOT on tree.
Just dinamite the place nothing will help you unless you use grub killer.
Drop the bag in the toilet, not in the trash; they still have eggs inside and will proliferate again.
You are attracting beetles to your tree by hanging the bag on the branches!
YES! While the bucket is a good idea, placing the lure near your plants attracts more beetles.
Another video joked by suggesting giving the lure and trap to a neighbor so the beetles will go there instead.
Good idea, but get it the heck away from your crops!
@@KntryhartExactly!!!
can we feed those dead beetles to African catfish ?
I hate these things and they make me sick to my stomach. Even watching this chicken gags me. Thank you for sharing your tips.
This a bad bad idea. It'll ATTRACT every beetle within miles of the bag and the bag will fill up fast. We tried this years ago with several bags and it was a nightmare!!
Disagree. EVEN IF the bag attracts more beetles? There's more that will die as well as keeping them off of my flowers!
YES!!! It got so bad they ruined my neighbor's trees too!! Literally thousands of these damn things. We did this for a couple years and each subsequent year it got worse and worse.
And for every beetle that makes it into the bag, just think of how many DON'T because they'd rather have your roses or the bag is too full after only 10 hours and you haven't changed it yet.
Japanese beetles killed my Pa. and my plum tree.
They killed your pa? Don't hang the trap on your ma.
It's an attractant. You will bring more beetles to your location because of the scent. Do not hang it in your garden. Hang it a quarter mile away and treat the surrounding 1-acre ground with milky spore.
You are attracting beetles into your yard from surrounding areas that might otherwise not come. You are making the situation worse.
No matter where the beetles come from, they all need to be killed with extreme prejudice!
YEP!
Do not use these!!!! They only attract more beetles.
YEP!