[NAFEX] japanese beetle questions

hector black hblack1925 at fastmail.fm
Thu Jun 14 10:44:40 EDT 2007


Hey Muffy,
    Granite dust can be had at the places where they carve tombstones, but you have to be careful.  I read somewhere that aluminum gets into the dust somehow - not sure how - and this can become toxic over time.  By the way, wear a mask (one of those little nose and mouth things) when you throw the granite dust.   Hector black zone 6 middle tn
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: drosehngs1 at juno.com 
  To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:29 AM
  Subject: Re: [NAFEX] japanese beetle questions


  Thank you for all the thoughts on japanese beetles (where do you get granite powder?).

  I no longer have the plum/apple/peach trees as I didn't want to spray (so I don't know about the overlapping pollination), but I'd be willing to make an exception for japanese beetles (especially if I could give them some of their own in lieu of chemicals).

  Don't know that the neighbors would appreciate hens, chickens, turkeys (am still ruing my elderberry decision) - might the visiting, almost ubiquitous, grackles, starlings, robins, blue jays, etc., though less reliable, serve?

  -- "bluestem_farm at juno.com" <bluestem_farm at juno.com> wrote:


  We pick the beetles off of our grapes and roses and feed them to the chickens and turkeys, who have learned to come running when I come in waving a J. B. trap.  To save labor, I'm planting fruits near the bird yard and once I get a predator resistant fence up plan to turn the birds loose to eat more grass and critters.  I suspect it will be easy to teach the chickens to follow me around for beetles,  harder with the flighty heritage turkeys.

  Muffy Barrett
  SC Wisconsin Zone 4 or so 
  Where the strawberries were 2 weeks early this year and I had my first 2 homegrown wild-type Juneberries yesterday.


  -- "hector black"  wrote:
      I've heard, but never experienced, that if you have Guinea hens, they 
  will come eat the ones you knock off the vines or whatever they're on.
      Hector Black zone 6 middle TN...Beatles have just arrived




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