"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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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.
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derek
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Our neighbor to the west planted a garden and hung beetle traps all around
it. :-) Within days our beetle population dropped by at least 80%. I
think they moved over there. I still have to spray though because we have
too many rosebushes and crape myrtle's to hand pick the beetles.
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