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Japanese beetles on basil
Is it legal for them to attack my basil? This is ridiculous. Last year it
was the pole beans. Today, the basil. Don't give me any of that BS about picking them off by hand. There are hundreds of them. Other than Ortho, anyone have a cool solution? |
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Japanese beetles on basil
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: Is it legal for them to attack my basil? This is ridiculous. Last year it was the pole beans. Today, the basil. Don't give me any of that BS about picking them off by hand. There are hundreds of them. Other than Ortho, anyone have a cool solution? http://awaytogarden.com/japanese-beetle-juice Wonder if they are edible. http://www.google.com/search?client=...anese+beetles+ recipes&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Milky Milky Milky Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA |
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Japanese beetles on basil
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message ... Is it legal for them to attack my basil? This is ridiculous. Last year it was the pole beans. Today, the basil. Don't give me any of that BS about picking them off by hand. There are hundreds of them. Other than Ortho, anyone have a cool solution? |
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Japanese beetles on basil
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message ... Is it legal for them to attack my basil? This is ridiculous. Last year it was the pole beans. Today, the basil. Don't give me any of that BS about picking them off by hand. There are hundreds of them. Other than Ortho, anyone have a cool solution? How much basil... for a couple three plants draping with fine netting for a few days until the bugs cycle is over will work.... buy a package of woodworkers tack cloth (looks like cheese cloth) from Lowe's for like $6. |
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Japanese beetles on basil
we went to farm fleet store bought 2 traps ($4.95) which were yellow
plastic flanges with a dark green hourglass shaped garbage bag hanging from the yellow plastic-stick a little package of included bait on the yellow plastic just above where the bags hook on. totally gross they swarmed the bags so dont hang them in public area but by the end of the day the bottom of the bags were bulging with thousands of them and the next day we didnt have any more around. advice on the net is dont do this unless the entire neighborhood does or you will atrract everyones to your yard but i think we were the only ones and 2 bags took care of it. i think they are in colonies rather than evenly spread across the lands. |
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Japanese beetles on basil
ps we tried a regular fly trap first-caught flies but no beetles :-)
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