Insects: Controlling Japanese Beetles in Your Garden
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Many insects can be pests to your garden, this year Japanese Beetles have been especially bad. Rose flowers are one of Japanese Beetles favorite flowers, feeding on the leaves and petals. You want to be careful of spraying insecticides in your garden, making sure you're not hurting pollinators coming to flowers. Check back for new videos every week or check out our website www.woodlandscape.com for more information about us!
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Neem doesn’t work on these Japanese beetles after you’ve killed the ones you sprayed. Seems to be no residual effect. I can spray one day and they’re back the next. I’ve used a weekly application for 3 weeks and have more Japanese beetles than I had before. My grape vines are being eaten every day. I manually remove the beetles in addition to the spraying. Yes, it is cold pressed Neem oil with Azidiractin and yes I use a bit of dishwashing liquid as a surfactant. But, no it hasn’t had a repelling effect.
Did you use the 100% been oil?
There is a trap being some on Amazon it's like $15 great results. Just type in Japanese bettle trap.
We live near LaPlata Maryland and boy do we get Japanese beetles! I’ve put out grub killer and beetle traps around my property line, which I change out the bags around two to three times a season. I’ve heard somewhere that the beetle grubs like acidic soil so I’ve been using lime on my lawn. Is this true? I only use it maybe twice a season snd yes the grass loves it (mow, mow, mow)!
Tim Castle I have alkaline soil and am dealing with Japanese beetles. So I wouldn’t put stock in that train of thought.
The bagas should be changed or emptied daily, when you leave them too long the beetles chew then and get out, also when it rain they get wet and the smell is horrific.
I hunt thenm down , knock them down in soapy water, then wash them , give those to chickens
mine says "nem oil" 100%... what does it mean then?
Tom, we live and farm near Johnstown, OH and what would you recommend to put in the turf for the laying beetles? Is there an organic or natural option? Thanks for the helpful videos!
Michael Lohre
Search for "Gabriel Organic Milky Spore lawn spreader mix" at Amazon
What percentage of neem oil should be in the spray?
Hello. I use one to two teaspoons to a litre or quart of water with a little dish soap. The soap gets the oil to mix better, and stick better to the plants. The soap is also an insecticide itself. You'll want to get virgin, 100% pure neem oil. Just a heads up: Neem is a good insecticide. And it will kill Japanese beetles. But....if you have a large enough infestation, you may not notice because those suckers are relentless. I see you just posted three days ago, so you're probably in a similar situation to me -- they are devouring my (ornamental) garden. So too are the Asiatic beetles, those medium brown colored ones. I'm going crazy. Peppermint oil is a repellent; I've been using that too. But I don't know what will really take care of them. Short of something really poisonous (those dusts), which I won't use. You may have better luck with the neem. I've used neem on red lily leaf beetles and their larva, which can take down a whole lily in two days and it was very effective on those. Good luck! : )
Oh, I should add that hand control is going to definitely be more effective than the neem -- Hand picking them off, or with a stick or something, and dropping them into a container with either an inch or so of cheap cooking oil, or filled with soapy water (the oil will kill them quicker). I just can't deal with touching bugs, or being in that close contact for so long. So that's out for me. But a LOT of people control them that way.
NSpector I’d have to be out there for the day to remove them. They come back minutes after I’ve picked off what was there 😂😂
@@MountainsnVallies Oh, really? That's discouraging to hear. I am maybe (if I can get over being grossed out) going to try that next. They are decimating my garden right now. It's awful.
@@nspector Four O Clock flowers kill them and are pretty in your ornamental garden.