I have a plot of corn, about 50ftx50ft, It was really getting eaten up by those Japanese Beetles. so I finally took a small container with a lid, and put about 2 inches of gasoline in it. I went out and began flicking them into the jar, instant death!! I probably got over 200 the first time. The next morning I got maybe 20, and this morning I got 2. Only 20 ft of the corn patch is affected right now, since the second planting is still not tassled out. Anyway I thought that this might help some of you with those pesky beetles.

-- Susan n' Emily, in Tn (animalcrackers55@hotmail.com), July 26, 2001

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Thanks! I have the Japanese Beetles all over my roses! I have sprayed, picked them off, sprayed until I am blue in the face! So far I haven't seen them on my corn! Thanks for the info, I will give it a try! Sure can't hurt! :)

-- Brenda (CherokeeMaiden2@aol.com), July 26, 2001.

I've heard many say that chickens and guineas are a good way to keep the place Japanese Beetles-less!

-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), July 27, 2001.

I get 2 japensee beetle traps very year. they work very well. i tryed the flicking them in a bottle with alchol trick but more kept hatching out and the game got really old after a while. Rural King and many other stores like that have beetle traps they are $5.96 here. don't put them to close to your house if you forget to dump them every other day it smells! if you get one you can hardly notice a difference for 2 days and you will think that it is a piece of junk but they will work! we have chickens and guineas and i don't think the LAZE things eat a one!!

-- lindsey (l_shamhart@hotmail.com), July 28, 2001.

You don't need to use gasoline to flick them into. A bowl of water works equally well - especially if you put the bowl down for the chickens to eat. Ym! Ym! Otherwise just let the beetles drown. My chickens love the pests, but can't jump high enough to keep my corn, raspberries, cherry trees, etc. clean, so I use a bowl of water once or twice a day. Cool weather is best, as in the heat of the day, they fly away as soon as I bump a branch. Good luck.

-- glynnis in KY (gabbycab@msn.com), July 29, 2001.

Get yourself some molky spores at a local plant or ag store it won't help much the first year because it is a spore of some type that kills the bugs as the grow in the ground it works wonders.

-- smokey (smokeybearfan@hotmail.com), July 29, 2001.