conpewter
Well-Known Member
motor oil is not working for me either, put it in a yellow container, hung it up at head height (so the dog couldn't get in it) and nary a beetle has been found in it. I do have a couple on the plants.
Well, not so worried about the japanese beetles after the hail storm that wrecked havoc on the entire property... Much dissappointment in the brewhaus
Has anyone used the white powders you can put on the plants. I worry about doing that for obvious hop contamination reasons.
What you're asking is like KFC secret recipe of organic farming..Most will not give up their secrets.
Seven can be used up to mid-July; don't use it after that..This is not organic farming, and wouldn't want to consume that crap after flowering has set in..
They like the hot weather especially after a rain, when foliage is vulnerable.
Neem oil does work..buy the concentrated and increase the ratio and add your wetting agent (soap).
Ahh what the hell..Heres my ultimate secret weapon...
hxxp://www.gardensalive.com/product.asp?pn=8101
Pyola is an insect spray that is made with Canola oil and pyrethrins. These ingredients both come from plants, so this is called a botanical insecticide.
A good read:
hxxp://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/using-botanical-pesticides-in-your-organic-garden.html
Still way better for you than using seven..
Oh, I see you're in Illinois..what ya growing this year, maybe do a small Hops trade..
My other thought is to be a great guy and give traps to my all my neighbors that are a few houses away.
Well, only give them to the people upwind of you!
If you treat lawn areas (where the grubs prefer) and leave the garden areas alone you can probably still sleep at night...
And treat your deciduous non-fruit trees with the Bayer tree stuff that gets sucked up into the leaves.
Thought about that second part, but my only trees are Red Maple that they don't touch.
Whatever you do, DO NOT use those yellow-lawn japanese beetle traps!!! All those things are doing is sending out pheromones that lure every japanese beetle in your neighborhood to the vicinity of those traps. And while the trap might kill 2% of those it attracts, the ones it doesn't are going to have one hell of a time feasting on all those plants you were trying to protect. As someone who owns a landscape/garden buisness, it drives me to holy hell when some ignoramus puts up three of those things in their 1 acre yard and then b*tches to me why japanese beetles are eating up all their plants. And if your neighbor is stupid enough to use those things up, then sorry but you now know why you have a japanese beetle problem.
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Whatever you do, DO NOT use those yellow-lawn japanese beetle traps!!! All those things are doing is sending out pheromones that lure every japanese beetle in your neighborhood to the vicinity of those traps. And while the trap might kill 2% of those it attracts, the ones it doesn't are going to have one hell of a time feasting on all those plants you were trying to protect. As someone who owns a landscape/garden buisness, it drives me to holy hell when some ignoramus puts up three of those things in their 1 acre yard and then b*tches to me why japanese beetles are eating up all their plants. And if your neighbor is stupid enough to use those things up, then sorry but you now know why you have a japanese beetle problem.
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I think the key issue is placement.
I've been using nicotine: I take my cigar ends and my girlfriends cigarette ends and soak them in a gallon of water. I leave the jug out in the sun and let it brew like sun tea. After a day or 2 I filter it into a sprayer and spray my plants. Been working pretty good. Going to put down the oil by my plants this year as well after reading about it!
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