When I lived outside of Philadelphia, I had Japanese beetles eating my roses. I went to a local nursery and bought a kit with pheromones that attracted the beetles to an hourglass shaped plastic bag and trapped them there. Within a half hour of putting the trap up, it had completely filled up! So I emptied them into a zipper plastic bag and set it up again, but within a week or so, I didn't find anymore of them. Probably trapped every one in the neighborhood! I thought this was a nice way to get them out of my yard. I'll never forget how weird the bag looked, with all of these beetles scrambling around in it!
Controlling Japanese Beetles, Roses for Everyone!
When I lived outside of Philadelphia, I had Japanese beetles eating my roses. I went to a local nursery and bought a kit with pheromones that attracted the beetles to an hourglass shaped plastic bag and trapped them there. Within a half hour of putting the trap up, it had completely filled up! So I emptied them into a zipper plastic bag and set it up again, but within a week or so, I didn't find anymore of them. Probably trapped every one in the neighborhood! I thought this was a nice way to get them out of my yard. I'll never forget how weird the bag looked, with all of these beetles scrambling around in it!