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Hello. Wow, finally I saw the Japanese beetle parasite. The first picture without the parasite. The second picture with the parasite The white dot on the beetle is the parasite of a small fly that came from the U.S.A. This is the first time I have seen it. A+
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That looks like the beetles that get in poop and carry it underground to lay eggs
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It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Japanese beetles have been plaguing us here in the Midwest (USA) for several years now. Some years, not so bad, some local areas will have them bad while a few miles away hardly a notice. They can devour a fruit tree or decorative shrub of good size in no time. Wicked little eaters of leaves!
They are not dung beetles and about a quarter of the size, or smaller.
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Fish on!, Noel
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Japanese beetles have been plaguing us here in the Midwest (USA) for several years now. Some years, not so bad, some local areas will have them bad while a few miles away hardly a notice. They can devour a fruit tree or decorative shrub of good size in no time. Wicked little eaters of leaves!
They are not dung beetles and about a quarter of the size, or smaller. Exactly that, my friend a few miles down the road is getting her gardens hammered by those things while I've seen 5 total this summer in mine.
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Liquid Seven drops japanese beetles in no time. Look for Carbaryl 4L at your local farm-n-home store.
I've had a relatively minor infestation this summer. They show up, I spray. Couple days later they're back, so I spray again. I put a pheremone trap over the pond a couple weeks ago, but haven't seen a single bug buzzing around it. It's one that I found under a stack of stuff in the potting shed so it may just need a fresh lure wafer installed.
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Dave they aren’t the same as the black ones, they look like the pix and will clean up dog poop and carry it underground
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I hope the parasite truly disrupts their lifecycle and somehow eliminates them all!
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When Japanese beetles first came into our area many years ago, they were plentiful for a few years and then the population crashed. Now we see very few. I guessed some natural control took over, but I don't know what it is.
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When Japanese beetles first came into our area many years ago, they were plentiful for a few years and then the population crashed. Now we see very few. I guessed some natural control took over, but I don't know what it is. Somewhat that way around here, some yrs ago they were everywhere, I literally set one of those traps over a piece of pvc pipe and filled a 4ft section of 4" pipe with them, several times, but we havent had nearly as many lately, I do keep traps out but have not got as many in them in two weeks as I used to get in a couple hrs back then. as Augie said, seven takes them out but I am not a huge fan of using it unless as a last resort, we have a shortage of bees around here and seem to getting more sparse by the day. friend of mine lost several hives in the last several yrs. I do use some on like grapes and young fruit trees and stuff that the bees wont be on anytime soon anyways. them beetles can sure make a tree look bad. and fast.
All the really good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
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