Organic pesticides can help you to protect your plants from adults, and the pesticides can even be used inside traps. To gain control over the population before it booms, spray the soil with nematodes (which look like small worms) to go after the larvae. Unlike other insects, smelling the ...
As larvae, Japanese beetles live underground, feeding on the roots of grasses and other garden plants. This often leads to brown spots of dead or dying grass in lawns—a tell-tale sign of a Japanese beetle larvae infestation. The adults like to feed on a variety of fruit and shade trees...
Japanese Beetle traps should not be used Japanese Beetle traps are a disaster. Sure, the traps catch tons of beetles. But since the bait is a pheromone, the beetles are attracted from up to 1 mile away. Not only are you catching the adult beetles from around your home, but you’re cat...
J. 2001. Use of Japanese-beetle traps to monitor flight of the Pacific coast wireworm, Limonius canus (Coleoptera: Elateridae), and effects of trap height and color. Journal of the Entomologic al Society of British Columbia, 98: 235-242....
In an earlier study it was shown that traps, used according to manufacturer's specifications, were ineffective for reducing defoliation of potted grape plants in an urban landscape. In this study at a golf course in Kentucky in 1985, the hypothesis that single trap placements might be more effe...
Commercial and homemade Popillia japonica Newman traps available to the public, were evaluated for relative effectiveness during the summers of 1981, 1982, and 1983 in Knox County, Tenn. Dual lure (food + sex attractant) traps (Bag-a-Bug, Lure N Kill, the Beetle Bagger, and homemade milk...
Wrong!The facts:This is the biggest misconception in Japanese beetle history. The problem occurs when Japanese beetle traps are placed incorrectly. If placed next to a rose bush, Japanese beetles will be attracted to that area, and may land on the roses rather than in the trap. ...
Traps for the Japanese Beetle. 来自 CAB Direct 喜欢 0 阅读量: 10 作者:VAN LEEUWEN, E. R,METZGER, F. W 摘要: The trap for the Japanese beetle [Popillia japonica, Newm.] described and illustrated is an improved form of one already noticed [R.A.E., A, xvii, 421], the modifications...
Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps. BMC Biol. 7, 73 (2009). Yang, X., et al. Probing the Drosophila retinal determination gene network in Tribolium (II) The Pa...
Traps and Insecticide-Treated Foliage for Use Against the Japanese Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)1Several insecticides (bendiocarb, malathion, carbary1, and methoxychlor) were applied to soybean foliage surrounding traps for Popillia japonica Newman baited with phenethyl propionate + eugenol + geraniol ...