enigma expounded:

want to rent my 4 YO? he's pretty good at making 'beetle
soup' (i give him a dish of soapy water to drop the beetles
in).

Oh, that would be fun! )

i do feel for you. you've had to deal with them longer
than i have. took another year for them to get up here after
you first saw them.
perhaps the parasitic wasp doesn't handle cold well. the
beetles burrow from what i can tell (somewhat like the equally
annoying Oriental beetles... which the chickens love, but that
also is a detriment to the plants)

Chickens are next year, I've got to get the backyard in order before I
can get my girls. Although as you indicated, I won't be letting them
run wild in the flowers!

on a happier note, NH has put Norway Maple on the noxious
plant list. they will be completely banned by 2007
lee an excuse to get rid of that damned Norway maple! 20
acres of sugarbush & the previous owners planted Norway
maples. idiots!

They're horrible trees, I'm surrounded by them, they were here when I
got here, I've cut down three, and pulled hundreds of seedlings!
There's a big one on my property line I'm working on the neighbors to
cut down (it'll fall in their yard, it's a leaner). Someday.....

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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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