Controlling Japanese Beetles

Japanese beetles are a type of invasive beetle that does damage to a wide variety of plants around our homes. They may be pretty with their green / rust colored bodies, however they are very destructive and an incredible pain. You can attack these bettles at different stages in their life cycle. Japanese beetles will make short work of your rose bushes, grape vines.

To deal with this beetle as a grub you should consider adding milky spore to your lawn. Milky spore is a bacteria which is safe to use around waterways, animals, and children. The grubs ingest this bacteria will ultimately destroy the grubs from the inside out. This will also work on june bug grubs also. As all of these grubs die you may find that any mole or vole problem you had in your yard may also disappear.

Once the Japanese beetle has emerged as an adult you have a couple of options at your disposal also. pheromone traps are one common way. There are some disagreements about how effective these traps are. Some feel that since they catch a bag full of beetles it works well. Some believe since they attract the beetle, that you actually invite more in your yard than you can catch, increasing your problems. You can always employee the stand by of picking the beetles.

Beetle picking has to be done by hand and can be a bit cumbersome. Simply fill a mason jar half way with soapy water, then knock them off the plant into the jar. Once the beetles have died, you simply dump out the jar and fill again. If you wish to gain the upper hand on them, you will need to do this daily.

It is quite unfortunate that this beetle has been introduced to the states and is now reeking havok from the east coast into the midwest.

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