Peeps, I present a better way to deal with Japanese Beetles. Both traps have at least 50 and they’ve been out for barely 24 hours. Kudos to my sister for the tip!

Get the traps on Amazon: Spectracide Bag-A-Bug Japanese Beetle Trap2

Also, I’ve still been spraying them with dish soap if they’re on the cherry willow. However, I find dusk or later is best. They’re asleep and easy pickin’s.

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Cat just ate a Japanese Beetle that hitchhiked a ride inside after this afternoon’s battle.

She said it was a little crunchy for her tastes, but that’ll do pig.

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They’d infested the top half of my young cherry willow tree before I’d even noticed. They’re the worst insect I’ve ever encountered. They never end.

Several squirts of dish soap into a water spray bottle I had used on the cats. Shook the hell outta it until it was all suds, and headed to war.

Grabbed a ladder and thoroughly soaked them all. Each branch, each leaf, each beetle and every beetle. At 9:30pm at night. With only a street lamp to guide me.

Afterward I picked a leaf that was covered and brought it inside to see how my chemical warfare had played out.

They’re all dead ☠️

They killed another of my smaller trees last year. Never again.

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