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Posts Tagged ‘Japanese Beetles’

From the blog backyard arboretum by kjaros on Monday, July 5th, 2010

The Japanese beetle is native to Japan and was accidentally introduced into the United States in 1916. Since that time it has slowly spread from southern Maine to Georgia, and westward …

From the blog backyard arboretum by kjaros on Monday, July 5th, 2010

Unfortunately, Japanese Beetles have no natural predatorsĀ in the United States, and they are spreading rapidly westward. An abundance of favorable food plants and the ability to fly up to 5 miles …

From the blog backyard arboretum by kjaros on Friday, July 10th, 2009

Here's a very simple method: pick a one foot by one foot patch of your lawn where the brown dead grass meets the nice green grass. With a shovel, cut three …