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Old 20-05-2006, 04:00 AM posted to rec.gardens
Father Haskell
 
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Default pesticde free way of ridding fruit trees of Japanese beetles ?

William Wagner wrote:

Look about for Japanese beetle traps. Then again you may make your
own. They like yellow. Growing up hand picking with a small jar of
kerosene was the method of choice. I think "milky spore" is the way to
go now. We were always more interested in lighting bugs )


Go with milky spore. Apparently, it's driven the Japanese beetles
in my area to near extinction.