[MR] Re: Japanese beetles; organic deterrent

[Leslie Cox]

from book:  Slug Bread and & Beheaded Thistles (ISBN:0-96496164-0-8)

Japanese Beetles have a fatal attraction to Geranium Maculatum, a wild
geranium species with small pink flowers.  The plant is toxic to them, but
they are irresistibly attracted to it, eat it and die.

Also, if you have an old blender you can spare to not ever use for anything
else again - make bug juice and spray your roses with it.  Bugs stay away
from where they smell dead of their own kind (who wouldn't?) - Catch a cup
or 2 of Japanese beetles, blend them up with 2 cups lukewarm water, strain
through cheesecloth or non-food sieve, put results in a spray bottle and
spray your plants - tops and undersides of leaves, runners, etc.  Can be
frozen for later use.  Caution - rubber gloves and a cloth or paper mask
would be a good idea when doing this.

I haven't tried these solutions myself, but I offer them to anyone who is
chemical-sensitive as I am.  If you DO try'em, let me know if they work!

-- Lucy Rose Falconer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janie" <janielee at cox.net>
To: <Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: RE: Japanese beetles, was RE: [MR] Old English Roses


> Good point!  Also, since it seems that the beetles like outdoor lights,
> don't plant your roses near any lights.  Our back yard, double flood
lights
> attract PILES of beetles and some always find a way inside the nearest
> window.  Ugh.
>
> Gwendolyn
> (Janie)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bary Sears
> The only problem I have with traps is that they tend to attract the
beetles.
> If I use them, I put them on the boundaries of my yard, and try to get
them
> as they come in.
>
>
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