japanese beetles

[Anton Jopko]

Dear Listers, Japanese beetles are everywhere this summer in our garden in southern ontario. Does anyone know how to make a beetle trap for these pests? Thanks for listening, anton

[John Bachman]

Forget traps. By the time they are attracted to traps they have already chewed what they will chew. Inoculate your soil with milky spore. That gets them in the larval stage (grubs) before they eat everything.

JMHO

John

[Tom Randy]

Go to your local garden center and buy one, they are not expensive. They do work. I've been using them the past 5 years. Follow the directions. Also, put down Grub X as well to kill the larvae.

Tom

[Bill R]

And just to add to Tom's post -- be sure that you place the traps some distance from your plants. I hang mine from apple trees which are about 20 feet from my Dahlia plants (Japanese beetles really love them).