How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles and Stop the Plague!
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Japanese beetles are literally the worst! This video will show you how to manage this pest, with both natural and chemical approaches to japanese beetle control. Many people deal with these monsters shredding their garden and orchard every summer - I hope this helps you take back your space. Japanese beetle history, identification, life cycle, and how to stop Japanese Beetles, all in under 5 minutes - let’s do this!
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00:00 Introduction
00:17 Background
00:45 Identification
02:09 Organic Control
02:38 Pesticide Control
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Better solution: I used to have a Japanese Beetle problem, but I built and bought a dozen small bird houses and put them around the property. Finches love Japanese Beetles. No more problem.
That's a fantastic solution - great idea with the natural predation!
This is a more permanent line of defense and who doesn't love to have local birds in the yard? Very logical solution
We love our finches! Good to know. We haven't been infested in a few years--knock on wood.
I get Japanese beetles every year on my cherry trees. This year I sprayed immunox fungicide on my cherry trees for disease control. For some strange reason I haven’t seen 1 Japanese beetle. Maybe I get a year without them. I will spray immunox again next year to see what happens.
@@mastershonuff4046 I would love to hear what you find out!
I walk the yard 6 times a day, there are certain flowers they like. I knock them off into a soapy water especially when they're on their honeymoon 😂😂😂. After 3 years I have very few, which is kind of boring but I have definitely won the battle on these pest. It is good exercise too, you know, get your 10000 steps in.
Thanks for sharing - I love it!
So the first thing i used was the traps, wow caught 7 to 10 pounds of beetles a day, all that did was invite them from all over the country side, not a good plan, change to plan B, install bird houses everywhere added a bird bath, and i feed the birds most of the year, what i found out was that i now had a large flock of sparrows living all around my farm, and they seem to hunt down these beetles, they seem to love them, this made my problem to control them so much easier.
Thanks for sharing - encourage native bird populations is definitely a great idea!
lol i love u already! and appreciate that you added an organic method. been hearing about neem oil as well... I think I'll be giving it a try
You are too kind - thank you for the encouragement! I've been hearing about neem oil as well - planning to try it out next season!
😂you HAD ME--UNTIL the Round-up tank and pesticide rec😢 nope
It is an unfortunate necessity to utilize pesticides in battling these invasives. Your local extension office (MU Extension here in Missouri) provides tons of information on how to safely use pesticides when the need arises. Petals fall from fruit trees in April, eliminating the concern that pollinators are affected when the Japanese beetles arrive in June.
@@mancyclediySpraying with Sevin will likely kill your beetles but, will
not stop infestation year after year without killing the grubs. So your
going to be out there year after year. And it does say right on the label,
highly toxic to bee's, lady bugs, butterflies, which are all beneficial
pollinators.
But what really caught my eye was the mist seen around the spray area.
It also says on the label that it should not come in contact with your
skin, clothing, eyes, be inhaled or ingested. Yet you were spraying it up
overhead, wearing a short sleeve shirt and shorts with no mask or eye
protection. Please at least protect yourself if you're going to use it.
Lastly, just because the blossom's on your fruit trees are gone by June
doesn't mean blossom's are gone on Peas, Beans, and many other plants
are gone also. Bees are foragers, and that stuff says, 1 application can
leave a residue up to 3 months. No Thanks. No Bees. No Apple Trees.
Oh, I do live in a Japanese Beetle infestation area, and I do use the
soapy water method. It's tedious, but I'm in my garden everyday anyway.
Only takes a few minutes to kill what I can, by hand. Good Luck
Agent orange is better.
Same here...NO WAY! Why grow toxic food when I can buy that at the grocery store? We already know they lie about the safety of these chemicles- hence Monsanto losing their court cases. Having ZERO studies to prove safe, (and only ONE STUDY was entered into court, that showed "probable carcinogen". Yet they've been claiming hundreds to thousands of studies proved glyphosate to be safe, for DECADES! Now we know all independant studies are showing its DETRIMENTAL to the health of humans, from interrupting the shikamate pathway to causing rapid growth of tumours.... can't trust the FDA, as they were in on the lies, having been bought, plus Monsanto lawyer sat on the FDA board and voted FOR Monsanto, this being a (legal-?!) conflict of interest. No! There are plenty of other methods to combat beetles, and I will try them all until I find one that works, but I refuse to contaminate my trees with neurotoxins or any other chemicle. That would defeat my purpose. 🙂🌱🌻
Cold pressed Neem oil with a little Castile soap mixed with water. Spray every 5 days for 3 cycles. Works every time. Also good for Colorado potato beetle, Cucumber beetle, Cabbage moth. etc......
I'll have to check that out. Thanks for sharing!
I just sprayed a capful of bronners orginal peppermint mixed with water onto a rose bush and blackberry bramble that were infested! They haven't come back yet
Absolutely LOVE your video -- and your style.
I have a story to share that might be of some value. We have lived on this same 3/4 acre property in Cobb County, Georgia, for nearly 40 years now. When we first got here, the Japanese beetles were legion.
We planted fruit trees too, and I wanted to keep a nice garden. So I went to setting up the old school Japanese beetle traps. We're talking around 1985. I laugh because I soon learned our kitchen window sill was a great beetle monitor. I'd sit at our dining room table and hear them on the screen door to the deck. There wasn't a lot of difficulty in their off-season to find grubs in the soil.
And so, around 1991, I tried milky spore. In a couple of years, I noticed fewer and fewer beetles. I guess it does take some time. To net this out: I have not seen a single beetle on any window sill since the mid-1990s. That old "beetle-buzz" on the screen windows has been long gone. At dusk, it's mostly fireflies.
Thank you for sharing your story! I keep hearing about Milky Spore - planning to check it out!
@@mancyclediy One other poster wrote about the impact of drought on milky spore, but that's something we never had to worry about in this part of Georgia.
Laughed at your bronchitis comment. Wonder how many people got that reference. I use the soapy water method for the beetles, but think I'll add some bird houses in the hopes they can help in in the battle.
Haha - yeah, I doubt many get that reference. Thanks for watching!
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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
Thank you!
UV bug zappers work great on these beetles also. I put one out in my backyard patio at night for mosquitoes and in the morning there were dozens laying around the trap every morning. After a few days there were none.
That's AWESOME.
Lo ciento 😀. Good stuff here, they destroyed our pole beans this summer. thanks for the tips!
You are very welcome!
I have used milky spore but as we have long droughts every summer, one must hydrate at least one treated area regularly to keep the spore thriving.
In smaller areas like this involving fruit trees. I would use red flowering geraniums. Use in hanging pots on sheep hook poles and lay tarps below the the geranium plants. The beetles are attracted to the flowers, become paralized for at least 12 hours then fall into the pots or onto the ground. Lift tarps or sweep into soapy buckets. Obviously more labour as must be done every day and geranium plants must be watered. This method works best when poisons are not an option.🥰🇨🇦
Very interesting - thanks for sharing!
It works even in drought fine. Once the bacteria is in the soil it will seek out moisture in the beetle grubs.
I used to have Japanese Beetles but 5 years ago I bought a huge bag of granulated milky spore bacteria. I put it in a hand seed spreader and walked around the whole farm in late summer. The next spring I had considerably less and now none at all. Ive had droughts and floods in these years but the bacteria are colonized. They only feed on japanese beetle grubs underground. Not one beetle grub can reach maturity. It worked for me.
I'm gonna have to check out milky spore. Thanks for sharing!
Good to hear! I've got my big bag of milky spores and my spreader ready to go, just waiting for the next rain! 👍
It took two applications, two years in a row, for milky spore to have any effect here. It worked!
This is the perfect video for me since I am in to worms and parasites!
Everyone has their thing, I suppose... glad to be of help!
Bonide Beetle Bags are my saviors. It has a pheromone disc that gets attached to the piece that holds the bags. The secind they smell it they swarm the bags. They go inside and can't get out.
Good to know - I bought some spectracide beetle bags this year I’ll be checking out!
Pesticides are a horrible idea especially all the beneficial insects you are killing and where do you think all the pesticide goes to when it rains? Right into the ground to the water supply, etc.
There is a 350 mile DEAD ZONE in Gulf of Mexico because the phytoplankton plants are 100% dead. The Mississippi River washes all these non biodegradable herbicide toxins into our ocean. It's worse than DDT was.
I hear ya - that's why I do NOT use pesticides on any plants while they are flowering. I ALWAYS wait until petal fall is finished. I'm in Missouri, and follow the MU Extension office spray schedule for fruiting trees. They do a great job of educating people about the appropriate times to utilize chemical defenses on your plants.
I used to get hundreds of Japanese beetles in my cabin. They like to congregate in the corners of a sunny window. I have had success using milky spore applied with a wheeled spreader. Milky spore is a bacteria that will kill the Japanese beetle when they're grubs. It took spreading the milky spore twice, two years in a row, until I noticed a difference. I spread it where the grass was thick. Last winter I found less than a dozen of them gathered in my windows. Milky spore is expensive. To date, it has worked well here.
Thank you for sharing - good to know!
Thank you for this info, been using the powder not helping a lot. Their going down now.
Thank you!
Nothing can replace that lusty crunch of a Japanese beetle when crushed between thumb & forefinger. Just make sure to have a cloth for the digit cleanup handy...
"Lusty crunch"? OK, I'm in.
@@mancyclediy Lol!
I turned three ducks into the garden to eat the adults. During the year the ducks go after the grubs.
That's awesome - I didn't know ducks would eat them!
this is what happned to my lawn i cut my lawn at 1 inch for 4 of july i have apple tree and canibus these bugs are nuts and i had do A parasites CLENSE
recently
Oh man, sorry to hear that!
Sevin also gets rid of those pesky pollinators. (sigh) Perhaps another method might be preferable.
@mcconn746 Thank you for bringing up a common misconception. Pollinators need flowers, which those fruit trees do NOT have during June when Japanese beetles arrive. Follow the spray schedule of your local extension office to avoid putting pollinators in peril. Petal fall for fruit trees in the Midwest wraps up about 2 months before Japanese beetles arrive, so the pollinators are safe.
@@mancyclediy Thanks. Interesting. We have Japanese beetles in Georgia now. Our peas and beans are blooming and producing. That is good information if I can catch it at the right time.
They LOVE Japanese Knotweed. So much that if you plant it -they will tend to leave everything else alone. Knot weed in itself can be a problematic plant - so plant it far away from foundations & driveways. It can be killed off by repeated mowing/weed-eating.
Good to know - thanks for sharing!
I have also used traps to catch them then into the soapy water. Filled a 5 gallon pail with dead Beatles in 2 weeks.
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
All you have to use is Milky Spore powder
Have you had good luck with it?
@@mancyclediyI’ve had luck with it. Helps some the year you use but really helps the following years. Good news is that because it’s a spore it spreads easily and even to the neighbors yards.
Yes I used the granulated milky spore bacteria on my whole farm with a hand held seed spreader in fall. I've had zero Japanese Beetles. It works preventing them from living underground.
Milky spore worked for me. It took two applications, two years in a row before I saw a sharp reduction of Japanese beetles.
The pheromone bag traps work great on my property.
Good to know - I'm thinking about experimenting with them next season!
Holy cow, those guys have been eating my apple pears year after year. I wrap the fruits in brown bags and they tear the bags.
Sorry to hear this! Like so many other invasive species, Japanese beetles are out of control due to the limited number of natural predators here.
Whats something similar to Sevin that I can purchase in Canada?
Not sure, sorry!
They really like my blue lake pole beans. I have killed thousands of them with the soapy water approach.
There are some trees that get laced every year. It looks like they are turning brown in the summer it's so bad.
No good - I didn't know they hit pole beans too!
@@mancyclediy They seem to prefer them. I grow several varieties of beans and while I will occasionally find them on the bush beans or other pole bean varieties, they are always on the blue lake variety.
I've used the Japanese Beeetle Traps to good effect. One of those bag type things with a plastic "entrance" top, put a little water in it then the bait pill.
Pretty amazing, whatever odor was wafting out of the top of that bag, Japanese Beetles started flying to it in like a minute.. I had four traps up, and in a couple of days there were thousands trapped in those bags. Gross, but easy to dispose of.
Thanks for sharing - I would love to find a way to use those traps without inviting more beetles to my garden!
@@mancyclediy The instructions outline placement to avoid that as much as possible. You don't want to draw a stream of beetles from one direction with your garden in between, because they stop off at the garden thinking it's the source of the small. However, multiple traps around the garden provide a zone of capture with the garden protected in the middle. That worked for me. I had beetles leaving my strawberry plants to fly up to the stronger smelling traps.
@@MRTOMBO Great idea - I'm gonna try it!
@@mancyclediy Agree. According to University studies they capture beetles, but they lure brings far more new ones into your yard.
The odor is the concentrated phermone of virgin female japanese beetles. You are mostly destroying all the breeding males for miles around. No idea why the female beetles also come in and occaisonally some bees and wasps. These are very effective but must be emptied regularly as the stench of dead beetles is god awful. Despite being told that they attract more beetles, I have always noticed a drop in numbers up to 2 years after using the traps over a summer.
They love my River Birches.
Sorry to hear - Japanese beetles are relentless.
You need to cover yourself head to toe when spraying Seven.
Wear eye protection and get a charcoal painters mask.
Wear gloves too.
You don't want ANY of that spray on your skin, eyes, and especially in your lungs.
Totally agree - thanks for sharing!
I used the soap and bucket of water in my garden. They were eating my zinnias so badly. Note that i cought more in my pool filter than my bucket of water. Eh if they are willing to do the job themselves 🤷
Either way!
Tried using dish soap on my BlackBerry bush but the blackberries soaked in the perfume part of soap😢
I know! Blackberries are a tough call with Japanese beetles because anything you use will leach into the berries. I typically spray my blackberry plants down just after petal fall (to avoid harming beneficial pollinators) and then leave them alone during Japanese beetle season. Anyway - good luck!
try this nutritional spray - Magnesium + sulfur + molybdenum + boron + molasses. magnesium sulfate has both magnesium of course and sulfur in a form the plant want, boron can be from borax - (three ounces of boric acid or four ounces of sodium borate per gallon of water), molybdenum you can usually get only from agricultural stores - could be online. molasses is easily found...blessings
Thanks for sharing!
Those little buggers have been destroying my green bean crop. Grrrrr
So sorry to hear that! They're eating my mother's green beans too.
Saving puppies LoL
Haha thanks for watching!
Can't that Sevin spray get into your lungs and eyes? I don't think I'd spray it from that angle.
Yes, you definitely need to make sure you are spraying downwind when using.
What about flowering bushes etc, will the seven spray also kill the pollinators that we need?
Great question - do NOT use on any plants while they are flowering. ALWAYS wait until petal fall is finished. I'm in Missouri, and follow the MU Extension office spray schedule for fruiting trees. They do a great job of educating people about the appropriate times to utilize chemical defenses on your plants. The extension office in your state would be a great resource for you.
Sevin (carbaryl) is so toxic, and ecologically damaging it is banned in Canada for domestic use.
These punks have done a number on my raspberry bushes.
They are quite a nuisance!
As a child I'd catch them, tie a piece of thread around the hind legs, and fly them around in circles.
Yes, it was cruel, but, w t f, I was a child and they are a menace.
They are definitely a menace - thanks for watching!
😂😂😂
they ate my grape plant grrr
OK, well that stinks...
Damond-Dj
Good Luck!
Nasty things. They love my fruit trees, zinnias and rose bushes. Traps work picking and feeding to the chickens. Soapy water does nothing for beetles! I really don’t want to use pesticide 🇨🇦 I’m also using nematodes spring and fall
Thanks for sharing! I'm thinking about checking out the nematode option in my yard.
i am sure that it may have been a good video and instructional info however you cannot hear what is being said.
Thanks for the feedback - I'll keep this in mind for future videos.
Great now you are killing birds 😏
Thank you for watching. And thank you for bringing up a common misconception. The value of an early-season spray is as a deterrent much more than a bug killer. Yes, the Japanese Beetles that receive a direct hit are dying, but the spray mostly works be keeping Japanese beetles from landing in the first place. And regarding the dying beetles, I'm not seeing many birds munching on dead bugs, so I think the birds will make it just fine.
Check out your local extension office for suggested spray schedules to minimize ecological impacts. Here in Missouri, the MU Extension office has a fantastic publications to ensure responsible use of insecticides in orchards.
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Sure thing @Diamond-D - here's a video I did recently with 5 approaches to controlling Japanese Beetles: czcams.com/video/fjAhMDqsfWs/video.html