Someone wrote the author of the gardening column in the St. Paul paper
claiming that he'd taught birds to hunt down and eat Japanese beetles.

He started by catching the bugs, freezing them and then leaving the
carcasses near his bird feeders. He says that the birds ate them and
after a while started going after the live bugs.

Does this seem at all likely?

http://www.twincities.com/ci_2116635...-watering-lawn

His story starts about half-way down the page.

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St. Paul, MN