The Japs Have Attacked The Lower 40..

[jdmidwest]

All of my garden is bearing fruit now, I really can't go spraying pesticide all over the beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash. Besides, I am one of the few that are starting to believe that widespread pesticide use is leading to the decline of the bee population, so I try not to use pesticide any more than needed. Phermones target specific insects and do not bother the good ones like bees, ladybugs, praying mantis, and dragonflies.

Another thing I noticed, one of the bait stations seems to be more potent than the other. One is a catching fool, the other is just so/so. I have moved the traps away from the garden and up in the yard. I am noticing they seem to be eating on my Pin Oaks and not my garden as much.

[bigredbirdfan]

Place the traps as far from your garden as possible to avoid baiting them in to close. If possible give a few to your neighbors to draw them over to their place and still acieive the purpose of trapping them.

Wind direction will determine which traps fill more quickly.

[Idylwilde]

You can dump them in your pond and the bluegill go nuts over them, no poisons are on then pure protean to grow the fish LOL. Also the fly worked great for trout.

[jdmidwest]

I collected a few the other day for a guy that wanted them for bluegill fishing. Then he bought his own trapped and found some of his own.

[Midwest troutbum]

I have been informed by both Horticulturalist and Entomologist that the traps only attract more Japanese Beetles to the area. The traps work by emitting a hormone that the insects are attracted to. So better off not waisting money on the traps and get yourself some Seven or other product that treats for emerged insects if you have an infestation. It helps to treat the yard at the correct times of the year for the Japanese Beetle grubs, as they spend most of their lives underground eating sod roots. Many products are available, but typically mid to late summer is not the time of the year to be treating for grubs... Always follow directions on the label, or you may otherwise be wasting your hard earned dollars and putting yourself and others at risk, including the fish in the rivers that we love to fish for!