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| I let a bunch of this grow outside my back gate. It is usually considered a weed, but it also listed in many wildflower databases. I like the little pink flowers and the way the stems turn red after a while.
But this year, I also noticed that the JB love to mate on it. Apparently, it's like a Poconos hotel room with a heart-shaped hot tub, for Japanese Beetles. I am always knocking pairs of beetles off in to my Soapy Bucket of Doom. Maybe it keeps some of the little buggers from flying deeper into my yard? I notice the furtherest rose seldom gets JB, unlike the one near the back gate, where even the hint of a bloom lets me knock off a dozen bugs at a time. Anyone else notice this? Pennsylvania Smartweed - Polygonum pensylvanicum
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Here is a link that might be useful: More about Pennsylvania Smartweed
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- Posted by matriarchy 6 in PA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 30, 07 at 9:06
| Nevermind. None of them eat the smartweed anymore - because they are all over at the Passionflower Buffet. I barely get to see the flowers before they are eaten by JB and four-line bugs. I'm never planting Summer Poinsettia (Amaranthus tricolor) again, either. It seems to attract everything - flea beetles, four-line bugs, japanese beetles - even something I am calling the "three-line bug" because I don't know what it it is. The plants look like I peppered them with a shotgun. |
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- Posted by bulldinkie pa (My Page) on Thu, Aug 9, 07 at 8:25
| My husband designed a trap worked great this year.Ill be ready next year with all we caught cant be many left.yeah right. |
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