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Controlling Japanese Beatles
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Fri, Aug 22, 14 at 7:39
| Over the last several years the Japanese Beatle problem here is becoming increasingly worse. I spray pesticide in the spring a few times but not this time of the year as fruit is ripening. I quit spraying fruit a month or two prior to it ripening depending on the type of fruit. Does anyone have suggestions to control them? I was thinking about a 5 gallon bucket of sugar water to attract them where they would drown. |
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RE: Controlling Japanese Beatles
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| What they like best, besides roses, are plum and cherry leaves. THey show up here in July, after the cherries have been harvested. At which point, in a bad year, I spray the trees with systemic insectide that kills on feeding. |
RE: Controlling Japanese Beatles
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| Roses attack JB's read what work what don't I think take mix thing to work had good control with 60% Sevin. |
Here is a link that might be useful: JB
RE: Controlling Japanese Beatles
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| Thanks ltilton I will try that once I have the fruit picked. Gator rider I will give the sevin a shot , we use it sometimes on the vegetable garden. |
RE: Controlling Japanese Beatles
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Clark...you have to spray later for JB...you just have to. If you are willing to spray in the spring...why not later? Carbaryl (Sevin) is the go-to for JB...it kills them on contact and I think from ingestion as well. It is widely considered one of the safest sprays there is and has a low PHI (I think around 7 days for apples). Carbaryl knocks the hell out of JB like nothing else.
All those other things like traps etc are mostly gimmicks imo. |
RE: Controlling Japanese Beatles
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| Thanks Appleseed70 I avoid spraying as fruit get s close to harvest to avoid pesticide residues on the product. Afterwards I have no problem spraying. In the spring I spray pre-blossom and post blossom but never in blossom to avoid damaging my pollinators. Those are the two times of the year where I absolutely won't spray. |
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| The problem is that killing them after you harvest the fruit may not help at all the following year. They can just as well come in swarms from nearby property. |
RE: Controlling Japanese Beatles
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| If apples are the problem, JBs are usually gone by harvest time, at least here. Though I don't find them such a problem on apples that I need to spray. The JBs swarm the stone fruits instead. |
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