I was going to say the same thing that Peggy wrote. The best way to do it naturally is to pick them off and drop them into a bucket of soapy water. You can buy traps, but they tend to draw more to your area. Wishing you the best.
If you are referring to the product called Spectracide, I would definitely encourage some additional research on the active ingredient and its toxicity to beneficial insects.
The problem with anything effective in killing Japanese beetles is that it likely kills many other harmless and/or beneficial insects. It's a difficult situation. We don't like the beetles but how do we eliminate them without harming something we didn't intend?
The soapy-water bucket is a seemingly never-ending and futile process, but at least it doesn't harm anything else. So that's what most of us do for now until science can help us figure out a more equitable solution.
Tooks us a couple of years, but finally no Japanese beetles on my rose bush this Summer. In the fall and spring spread Grub control killer on your lawn, no grubs, no beetles.
i only used the control around the area wear the skunks were digging for grubs and around my rose bush.
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Get a cup or bucket of soapy water, put some gloves on and pluck them off your flowers right into the soapy water and they drown.
AnnMarie...Spectrum from Lowe's worked well for us.
Hi AnnMarie,
I was going to say the same thing that Peggy wrote. The best way to do it naturally is to pick them off and drop them into a bucket of soapy water. You can buy traps, but they tend to draw more to your area. Wishing you the best.
If you are referring to the product called Spectracide, I would definitely encourage some additional research on the active ingredient and its toxicity to beneficial insects.
The problem with anything effective in killing Japanese beetles is that it likely kills many other harmless and/or beneficial insects. It's a difficult situation. We don't like the beetles but how do we eliminate them without harming something we didn't intend?
The soapy-water bucket is a seemingly never-ending and futile process, but at least it doesn't harm anything else. So that's what most of us do for now until science can help us figure out a more equitable solution.
Tooks us a couple of years, but finally no Japanese beetles on my rose bush this Summer. In the fall and spring spread Grub control killer on your lawn, no grubs, no beetles.
i only used the control around the area wear the skunks were digging for grubs and around my rose bush.
Hope this helps.