Jangchub wrote:

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:55:28 -0400, "Paul E.
Lehmann" wrote:

I have heard about the milky spore product but I
also heard that you need neighbors who will
cooperate and use it also because the beatles do
fly and they will just migrate in from nearby.
Also the beatles I have eat very healthy plants
- roses and young grape shoots - in addition to
other things.

It may be beneficial for you to invest in some
Remay fabric to shelter
your grape plants till the June bugs are gone.
Also, spraying with
pepper spray may be useful. Take two or three
habernero peppers in a blender with about two
cups of water and an entire bulb of garlic.
Blend it, strain out the solids. Take the
remaining concentrate and
put it into and empty gallon jug and fill with
water. Use one cup per gallon of spray, but
make perfectly sure you strain out all solids or
your sprayer nozzle will clog. I use
cheesecloth, or I should say I
used to use it. Now I am tolerant of insects or
animals chewing on
things. I don't have a vinyard so I do
understand why you'd like your grapes to remain
well.

This sounds like a good thing to try if one had
just a few vines but I have over 100 vines.
Getting rid of the Japanese beatles is important
since they eat the tips of shoots and very young
leaves. It just so happens that these are the
leaves that are producing most of the
photosynthesis at the time of year when the
beatles are active.