Life cycle of the rose killer (beetle)
Last summer 2006 I came home from work on a hot sunny day and noticed
1000s (seriously unbelievable) of beatles hovering/flying/sitting...in my 3 acre yard. Sorry environmentalists but I got my spray pump and good ol' "Sevin" and starting terminating NUMEROUS beetles...no joke they were so bad that it seriously sounded like rain from the beetles falling out of a tree I sprayed. Ok here is the point/question..... Since these beetles apparently just came up from the ground (that many I would have noticed if they came out days before)... did I simply just kill 1000 beetles OR did I interrupt the reproductive cycle and therefore hopefully not as many this year. I'm hoping since they apparently just turned from a grub to a beetle that I killed them before they could "get it on" with each other and produce more for this season 2007. Thanks. |
Life cycle of the rose killer (beetle)
That might really help. One never knows.
Conditions exist from time to time that enhance the thrive rate of insects and rodents. The balance in nature run-a muck. When we have a really bad black 'fly' year - we can only hope for bad storms. When the storms occur, the next year the crop is lower. Not overheating cars as they drive to the store! I look at what you did as a push towards normalcy from an excursion into kayos. Martin Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Endowment Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot"s Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member. http://lufkinced.com/ dohc46 wrote: Last summer 2006 I came home from work on a hot sunny day and noticed 1000s (seriously unbelievable) of beatles hovering/flying/sitting...in my 3 acre yard. Sorry environmentalists but I got my spray pump and good ol' "Sevin" and starting terminating NUMEROUS beetles...no joke they were so bad that it seriously sounded like rain from the beetles falling out of a tree I sprayed. Ok here is the point/question..... Since these beetles apparently just came up from the ground (that many I would have noticed if they came out days before)... did I simply just kill 1000 beetles OR did I interrupt the reproductive cycle and therefore hopefully not as many this year. I'm hoping since they apparently just turned from a grub to a beetle that I killed them before they could "get it on" with each other and produce more for this season 2007. Thanks. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Life cycle of the rose killer (beetle)
Here's some info from http://www.rose-roses.com/problems/badinsects.html
"Japanese Beetles Popillia japonica Also sometimes known as the Chafer Beetle Rose chafer and garden chafer are two different varieties. Japanese Beetles are a shiny copper and green beetle about 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, that can eat entire flowers as well as foliage. In areas where these are abundant, they can be devastating to the look of your blooms. Japanese beetles eat large round or oblong holes in the leaves leaf edges and flowers (especially those with light colored blooms), sometimes leaving nothing but a leaf skeleton behind. They usually eat the plant from the top down. They are not going to kill the plant, but they can cause considerable damage. They are a problem for about a month to 6 weeks in the summer when they are in their adult flying form. Before that in the spring, they are 1/2 in to 1 inch long grayish white grubs living in the soil and the grass below. They feed on grass and roots at this point. When they start showing up on roses, they appear to have flown in all at once, but this is just because they all mature at about the same time. They are a much bigger problem in areas of the USA east of the Mississippi River. More information can be obtained he http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2504.html. OR http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2001.html Treatment: You need to go out early in the morning or late in the evening when they are the least active, and shake and pick them off the blooms by hand into a bucket with soapy water in it. This will kill them. Can be controlled by introducing milky spore (Bacillus popillae), or certain other beneficial nematodes into the soil in the spring. These will kill them as grubs. Unless all of your neighbors do this too however, you will still have some level of infestation. Another good reason to attract birds to your garden. You can also try spraying with neem oil, but this is not always effective. These beetles are repelled by garlic, catnip or geraniums. One thing that you must be careful about is that the same things that kill these beetles will kill ladybugs. Using beetle traps usually just attracts your neighbors beetles over to your yard." David Smitley, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, is doing a lot of work on this subject. There are several good articles on the topic on Great Lakes Roses website: http://www.greatlakesroses.com/homep...lecontrol.html Best Regards Jeff Southeast Michigan, Zone 5 "dohc46" wrote in message oups.com... Last summer 2006 I came home from work on a hot sunny day and noticed 1000s (seriously unbelievable) of beatles hovering/flying/sitting...in my 3 acre yard. Sorry environmentalists but I got my spray pump and good ol' "Sevin" and starting terminating NUMEROUS beetles...no joke they were so bad that it seriously sounded like rain from the beetles falling out of a tree I sprayed. Ok here is the point/question..... Since these beetles apparently just came up from the ground (that many I would have noticed if they came out days before)... did I simply just kill 1000 beetles OR did I interrupt the reproductive cycle and therefore hopefully not as many this year. I'm hoping since they apparently just turned from a grub to a beetle that I killed them before they could "get it on" with each other and produce more for this season 2007. Thanks. |
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