wrote:

I feed them every jap beetle I happen to come across in our rose bushes
:-)

Good one. One of the long-ago regulars here (Jim in JawJa) once took the
bottom out of one of the beetle-pheromone traps, and hung it over the pond.
The male beetles would hit the trap, be momentarily stunned and fall in the
pond - where they were promptly gobbled up.

He figured it was the only way those traps were useful, because otherwise
all they really did was attract _more_ beetles to your garden.
--
derek