Rescue beetle trap in my yard collecting Japanese beetles. I like this trap best because it is easy to empty out the dead beetles through the bottom zip closing.
The Japanese beetles are back and are once again eating our roses. However, I am happy to report that we have far fewer beetles this year. Originally I started trapping beetles last year because our roses were being decimated and I finally decided to fight back. I bought 3 different beetle traps and hung them in our yard. Every couple of days I emptied those traps because they were at least half full. I killed thousands of beetles!
This year I have 3 traps again, but have been emptying them only once a week, mostly because the dead bugs have started to smell rotten and the bad odor warns new beetles not to enter the traps. When I do empty them, the traps are usually less than one quarter full.
Now, we have all heard that the best place for a beetle trap is in your neighbor’s yard. However none of my neighbors showed any interest in trapping those miserable bugs last year and we were overrun with them. I do realize that I am attracting beetles both from our yard and from our neighbor’s yards to my Japanese beetle traps. However, I feel that every beetle I kill does not attack my roses and each female beetle I dispose of does not lay 40 eggs in our lawn. Also after observing the decreased beetle population from last year, I am now on a mission to rid our neighborhood of Japanese beetles!
Thank somebody up there,we still do not have this curse!
Milly