On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Kieran and Donna wrote:
I put down milky spore when I moved here, 9 years ago. I get a few Japanese beetles, but not enough to bother doing anything about. I noticed 3 skeletonized grape leaves and a few holes in the raspberry leaves, and that's it this year. I don't know if the milky spore helped, since I never tried doing without, but my guess is that it did. Most of my neighbors use chemical grub control, so I don't get a huge number of beetles from them. My father tried a japanese beetle trap years ago. Wow! Did that thing collect beetles. The risk is that you might pull some in from your neighbors' yards, but it does take a lot of them out of the breeding pool. Ginda |
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