Warzau
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Naperville, IL
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| Anyone else dealing with beetles? WT fudge
I had swarms of I assume scarab beetles. On all exterior lights. I did do the ortho max grub x and the lawn pest deal. I wonder if this is a traveling swarm. Is anyone in Chicagoland dealing with these damn beetles?!? BTW I killed them ALL with flying insect killer. |
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cubs4eva
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Aurora, IL | We have craploads of them out here too. Maybe they are like cicadas and come out every few years? |
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Warzau
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Naperville, IL
clubs: | I don't ever recall them being this severe....
Also been dealing with "little black ants" and my neighbors as well. Terro has been dealing with them, and how.  |
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cubs4eva
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join:2004-04-29
Aurora, IL | How about those orange ladybugs? I haven't noticed them this year when in the past four or five years they were everywhere. |
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aln4
join:2004-01-08
Algonquin, IL
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If your talking about beetles that are about 1/4 inch long and are an irredecent green, you probably have Japanese beetles. I have done everything from the lawn treatments(they start out as grubs in the ground, the soap spray everyday and the bug bags(filled up 4 of these last summer - the hold 4000 bugs a piece!). Nothing seems to work, since there are just too many of them for anything to be effective. The have just about killed my purple plum tree by eating off all the leaves. |
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user4275
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Chicago, IL
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Eating and Fornicating? | 
Leaf Damage |
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aln4
join:2004-01-08
Algonquin, IL | reply to Warzau
That would be them! |
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Warzau
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Naperville, IL
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said by aln4  :If your talking about beetles that are about 1/4 inch long and are an irredecent green, you probably have Japanese beetles. I have done everything from the lawn treatments(they start out as grubs in the ground, the soap spray everyday and the bug bags(filled up 4 of these last summer - the hold 4000 bugs a piece!). Nothing seems to work, My wife's roses have those. I am talking about those beige ones. That congregate near lights at night.
BTW the Japanese bettles are doing a job on the roses. I too have sprayed,etc,etc... I am trying to attract tons of bird and it is helping. |
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cubs4eva
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Aurora, IL | I'm also talking about the beige ones. They make a real gross snap and squish if you step on them. They always hang on the screen door too. |
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Warzau
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Naperville, IL
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| said by cubs4eva :I'm also talking about the beige ones. They make a real gross snap and squish if you step on them. They always hang on the screen door too. Yeah it's like snapping a twig. |
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Jon
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Lisle, IL | reply to Warzau
hmm, I haven't actually seen any beetles but something is eating the crap out of my wife's roses and our vegi garden.
We've sprayed too and it hasn't seemed to do any good. |
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drmorley
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join:2000-12-20
Park Ridge, IL
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Yep, they're all over our backyard. We had a BBQ tonight and I sprayed fogger all over our backyard. I think I took about two years off my life, but I killed quite a few of those nasties.
I hate bugs...all of them.
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Warzau
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Naperville, IL
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said by Jon :hmm, I haven't actually seen any beetles but something is eating the crap out of my wife's roses and our vegi garden. We've sprayed too and it hasn't seemed to do any good. They are prob the Japanese Beetles.
BTW I got this today from Scotts very timely. I guess I know what I am doing this weekend.
»view.scottsemails.com/?j=fe6c157···741c7077 |
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aln4
join:2004-01-08
Algonquin, IL
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Thought I would post a few pictures showing how many of these things I am dealing with.
The first one is the amount in the bag after only five days! The second one shows how full the bag is. The third one shows the nasty things still working on killing my purple plum tree. Insecticide is the next step. |
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Warzau
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Naperville, IL
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Jon
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Lisle, IL | reply to aln4
That's a lot of beetles! I certainly haven't seen anything like that here. |
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Chinabound
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No beetles up here that I've seen, but they would be difficult to notice while I am running away from all the mosquitoes. |
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VegasMan
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join:2002-11-17
Schaumburg, IL
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While driving back from Vegas this last week I did my part to help kill these things off. From the Iowa/Illinois line on I-88 to about 10 miles of I-39 these things are as thick molasses.
You would see them come at you in packs and when they hit the windshield it sounded like a heavy rain, I was killing 20-30 at a time and I had to stop twice just to scrub the windshield to get them off. I still haven't got all of them off the front of the car, I plan on doing that tonight at the car wash when it's empty.
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gary0922
join:2000-05-30
Wheaton, IL
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Unfortunately, Japanese beetles recently reached eastern Illinois. They started our in New Jersey in 1916 and have been moving west ever since. We had them in Pennsylvania in the 1960s. I've lived in Illinois for 35 years and did not see one until 2007. They still have not reached far western and downstate Illinois.
They are almost impossible to deal with. One solution is to treat your lawn in the Spring to kill the beetle grubs before they emerge as adult beetles. However, unless everyone in your neighborhood also treats their lawns, you will still have Japanese beetles. The beetle bags are good in theory but they actually attract more Japanese beetles to your yard than would otherwise come so the bags may actually make the situation worse.
Sevin kills them almost immediately. The weaker insecticidal soaps and pyrethrin do not work. Sevin also kills many other insects including honeybees. It also turns roses brown.
Another method is to fill a coffee can 1/3 full with water and add dish washing soap. Then, go out to the plant, hold the can under the flower or branch with the Japanese beetle, tap the branch and they will fall in to a soapy death. I have captured 100s this way.
There are also powders which can be dusted on the plant but then you have dusty looking plants and the dust wears off in a couple weeks or less.
Right now I am trying a Bayer systemic product for roses but I got a late start so it may not work. This product is mixed with water and poured onto the ground next to the rose plant. It is taken up through the plant and supposedly protects against Japanese beetles.
Another method for roses is to place netting over the roses like the Morton Arboretum did when the cicadas came out last year and chewed on the tender twigs of some plants. However, to enjoy your roses, you will have to take off the netting, admire your roses, and put the netting back on.
I hate Japanese beetles. |
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StepR
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join:2000-11-06
Elgin, IL
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War of the Roses: Beetle vs. Nematode
»online.wsj.com/public/article_pr···153.html
I, as does the author, have prized raspberry bushes, from which I picked a quart of berries every night last week. I just noticed the beetles by the raspberry bush this week. I do not want to use poisons on my berries, but the author explores using nematodes, the beetle's natural predator.
I'd been looking at the Web site of Gardens Alive!, a garden supply company in Indiana. They were advertising "Grub-Away Nematodes" which the site claimed were superior to other varieties. "While other beneficial nematodes wait passively for prey, ours move up to 10 times farther and much deeper into the soil," it explained. "Grub-Away Nematodes also have a special 'tooth' that burrows into their prey, allowing faster control of pests."
What worried me wasn't that my million nematodes were toothless; about half of them, in fact, were of the same strain as "Grub-Away." But Gardens Alive! claimed that a garden area of 200 to 300 square feet required 10 million nematodes. Our garden alone is larger than that, never mind the lawn. What if the one million I had sprayed weren't nearly enough? (A spokeswoman for Gardener's Supply later told me that its nematodes "multiply," so fewer are needed.)
Anybody else try this organic method? |
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