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Wed, Sep 8, 10 at 14:41
| .....when life gives you Japanese beetle grubs go fishing.
Sunday I was peeling back brown toupees of grass in my yard riddled with grubs, when my daughter posed the question. Dad are those good for fishing? I never thought of it before and the thought of a large pan fish devouring something I hate while giving me some much needed RnR would be great. I treated my lawn for the first time with Milky Spore and found a few grubs that already looked to be infected, but I think it will take several treatments to get them all. In the mean time I will walk with my spikes of death and peel back my bait farm when I want to go fishing. The fish did seem to like them as they stole them off my hook as soon as i dropped it down, when I went yesterday. |
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- Posted by scarletdaisies 7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 8, 10 at 18:23
| You can attract ground beetles, they eat larvae in the grasses over the winter.
"Plant ground covers. Low growing plants, including edibles like sage, savory, thyme, and strawberries also provide shelter for ground beetles." They come out at night, I see a few after 5 in the evening. I hope this might help, not sure if you would rather have the larvae than the beetle though. |
Here is a link that might be useful: bug
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- Posted by berryman135678 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 9, 10 at 10:25
| As much as I would like to tear up my grass and make one giant strawberry bed, my wife would have a fit over no grass and she hates bugs. The grubs are in my lawn so ground cover won't work. But Thanks |
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| Insects and other arthropods are simply a reality of living on the planet. And the more broad spectrum pesticides a person uses, the more pests they will begin to see. I think that your use of JB grubs is terrific. Do you have a bird bath? Toss a few of them into the water and let the bird find them. |
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| The first sentence of your post was quite well said, rhizo_1. Absolutely true. Let things balance themselves. Actually, scarletdaisies was right in there, too! hortster |
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- Posted by berryman135678 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 10, 10 at 12:51
| But should we just say "Oh well" to insects that are not Native? Or do we at least try an control or stop what someone has messed up. In the case of importing insects, animals or plants that are not native, we need to try an correct it. But I don't think man made chemicals are the solution either. Hence the use of Milky spore. I do like the idea of the birdbath too. Somethings balance themselves like the Lamprey eel introduced in upper Mississippi waters in the 70's. Turns out the fish loved them and you don't see them anymore. Or the Zebra mussels actually cleaning the waters. But in the case of JB the natural solution hasn't caught up yet. |
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| AMEN!berryman135678, AMEN! Can you put your post on every topic you visit, it needs to be said more. And I know it works, a lady told me,she paid $500.00 to have mole remove from her yard. It did not work & she got no refund. I applied Milky spores at no charge & the grubs are slowly being removed. No food the moles are leaving too. |
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- Posted by beeman_gardener 5 (My Page) on Wed, Jan 5, 11 at 9:44
| You could try 'Beneficial nematodes' against all sorts of soil bug larvae. Applied correctly at the right time it does a real number on a list of bugs, not just lawn stuff. |
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