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where are the Jap beetles

16 years ago

Not that I'm complaining..... but a wierd thing happened this year in my area. I haven't seen the japanese beetles. They are usually all over my yoshino cherry trees, the red maple and japanese maple. They are usually in full force in June and I haven't seen one all summer.

Kevin

Comments (5)

jayt63
16 years ago
They are in eastern PA. Yesterday the back yard was swarming with them. I put out a beetle trap and it was half full in no time.
storey3
16 years ago
And in Southern NH! They have been terrible. My baby Japanese Maple looks terrible!
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morpheuspa (6B/7A, E. PA)
16 years ago
If you'd like, I could send you a few million. My cannas look terrible.
habiem
16 years ago
Yeah, no kidding. They completely attacked my roses about two weeks ago. Oddly, in the 5 years I've been gardening, I had never seen them.
kmnhiramga
Original Author
16 years ago
I guess they went North this year? It's wierd, I've been using those traps (1 in back and 1 in front) for the past 5 years and this year I didn't see any? Yes, they are horrible, I didn't have one tree they didn't attack, maple, jap maple, oak, but they did prefer the cherry trees.
I will ask Walter Reeves (an expert in Georgia) where they are?

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