You so funny, NoHall.
I have a friend who only got rid of the beetles using insecticide, and now you're recommending it, so that's good enough for me.
Milky spores...come on, my kids are on this board!
is this related in any to OMBs?
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is this related in any to OMBs?
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
I'm pretty sure that everything is related to OMBs.
Think about it: If you were a Japanese Beetle (or even a lady bug, or a honeybee, or a homeless butterfly) and you were flying into a yard to snack on a rose (or make sweet love to another beetle) and saw OMBs hanging there, wouldn't you lose your apetite, for food or love?
Ocean Lover
bean
Forget the insecticide, now I need to find a pair.
I'll start a new trend in the neighborhood.
Mango
SoWal Insider
Forget the insecticide, now I need to find a pair.
Don't forget the banana bags too. Perfect combination.
I'm a gardener.
(But I have a B.S. in Philosophy, and am currently working on my master's in music ed...I'm kind of a weirdo.)
Join the club, NoHall. I have a B.S. in Food Science and I work as a Master Gardener. Go figure.
OL, those beetles think Rose of Sharon is caviar. They love to feast on it. Sorry. Like everyone says, the yellow bags are a wash. They kill the beetles, but they do as good a job of attracting your neighbor's beetles (that might have otherwise stayed at the neighbor's) so I think it's all a wash.
And speaking of wash, this is what I do when I'm feeling particularly mean towards those varmints. I go outside with a great big bowl of soapy water and I push the beetles off the leaf and into the swimming pool, where they drown. Then I wash the bowl out and bring it back into the kitchen. Just kidding!
(about the bowl, not about the mandatory death swim) I don't know if you'd like to do that, though. You can get quite a collection of corpses pretty fast doing that.
Ocean Lover
bean
Join the club, NoHall. I have a B.S. in Food Science and I work as a Master Gardener. Go figure.
OL, those beetles think Rose of Sharon is caviar. They love to feast on it. Sorry. Like everyone says, the yellow bags are a wash. They kill the beetles, but they do as good a job of attracting your neighbor's beetles (that might have otherwise stayed at the neighbor's) so I think it's all a wash.
And speaking of wash, this is what I do when I'm feeling particularly mean towards those varmints. I go outside with a great big bowl of soapy water and I push the beetles off the leaf and into the swimming pool, where they drown. Then I wash the bowl out and bring it back into the kitchen. Just kidding!
Maybe Dylan and his friends would like to play the beetle death pool game. They've been playing a little lightening bug baseball lately.
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
Tootsie! I thought about you while I was gardening today!
I bought some of those ornamental sweet potato vines for a client, but I could only find them in hanging baskets. There were 3 in each basket, so I had to separate them. I took them out and, lo and behold, they had giant purple OMBs.
Of course I didn't have a camera.