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Pat Kiewicz wrote:

Zootal said:


I'm going to keep a close eye on them for the next few days and see if I
can spot anything eating them.

I suggest a night-time foray with a flashlight. My guesses would be that
your pest is the invasive Asiatic garden beetle. They have only recently
reached the midwest. They feed at night and hide during the day.

http://extension.entm.purdue.edu/cap...cGardenbtl.htm

Presuming Pat is right, you ,ay want to look at
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/greenhs/htms/ghsebeetles.htm
The "Integrated Pest MAnagement" approach would have you try the spring
Tiphia wasp, and beneficial nematodes (Heterorhabditis sp.) first. To
avoid killing off beneficial insects.

http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/biocontrol/j_beetle.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2618435/

You don't want to swat fleas with a sledgehammer.
--
- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.

Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/

[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it's not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. That's hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they don't get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis