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Japanese Beetle & Grub Pest Control Elimination & Extermination
What Are Japanese Beetles and Grubs?
Adult Japanese beetles are approximately 1/2-inch long metallic green beetles with copper wing covers. They are found throughout the north eastern United States and found entirely throughout North Carolina and heavily found in Raleigh. Adults emerge from the ground and begin ravaging leaves, flowers, and sometimes fruit on more than 300 different kinds of plants in June. You will see intense activity over a 4 to 6 week period beginning in late June, after which the beetles eventually die off. Individual Japanese beetles live around a month to month and a half.
They usually feed in groups, starting at the top of a plant and working their way down. They are most active on warm, sunny days, and prefer plants that are in direct sunlight. Especially favored in North Carolina are crepe myrtle trees and roses. They feed on the upper surface of foliage, chewing out tissue between the veins. This gives the leaf a lacelike appearance. Trees that have been severely damaged appear to have been scorched by fire. Adult Japanese beetles mostly travel short distances to eat and mate, but can travel long distances sometimes several miles away. Females burrow a few inches into the ground, and lay their eggs (40 to 60 during their life span).
Check your yard and plants to see which ones are have beetle activity. Once these plants have been identified, liquid treatments with a chemical called PERMETHRIN is the most effective way to kill and prevent japanese beetle infestations. Permethrin will keep new beetles away from plants for up to a week forcing them to go elsewhere. Multiple applications will keep your bushes happy and alive.
What Are These Dead Patches Of Grass?
They spend the next 10 months in the soil as white ugly looking larva type bugs called grubs. The grubs are almost an inch long and full-sized by late August. Grubs eat roots of grasses and vegetables. However, they can survive in virtually any soil in which plants can survive. Female grubs like moist grassy areas to lay their eggs. Grubs can resist drought conditions by burrowing deeper into the soil if conditions become very dry. They can withstand high moisture and excessive water does not bother them. As Japanese beetle grubs eat roots, they reduce the ability of the vegetation to take up enough water to withstand the stresses of hot weather. Hence, large dead brown patches appear in lawns from the grub-infested areas.
Do Japanese Beetle Traps Work?
Research conducted at the University of Kentucky showed that the traps attract many more beetles than are actually caught. Therefore, susceptible plants along the flight path of the beetles and in the vicinity of traps are likely to suffer much more damage than if no traps are used at all. Catching 150 beetles when there are 2,000 flying around BREEDING and eating all of your bushes is not helping anything.
NO, NO, NO, Japanese Beetle
Traps ARE POINTLESS!!!
THINK ABOUT IT....
To kill Japanese Beetles you need to eliminate the source of the problem by interrupting the lifecycle of a Japanese Beetle by killing them all at the grub or larva stage. You can do this by applying a control agent to the lawn and getting rid of the grubs, so next year you won't have any beetles! Remember, your neighbors need to treat their lawns too.
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Source: JAPANESE BEETLES IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
