{"id":2856,"date":"2012-06-04T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T23:08:05","slug":"japanese-beetle-traps-useful-monitoring-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/06\/04\/japanese-beetle-traps-useful-monitoring-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Beetle Traps &#8211; Useful Monitoring Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2857\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/japanese-Beetle-Trap.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2857\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2857\" title=\"japanese Beetle Trap\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/japanese-Beetle-Trap-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/japanese-Beetle-Trap-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/japanese-Beetle-Trap.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese Beetle Trap<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A decade ago\u00a0garden centers\u00a0sold thousands of Japanese beetle traps until somebody questioned why anyone would want to\u00a0lure this summer pest into\u00a0their garden. Yes,\u00a0the traps do work and may catch hundreds per week. You also attract hundreds more to feed on your plants&#8217; flowers and leaves and, later in the year, the larvae will feed in the soil on lawn grass roots.<\/p>\n<p>Most Japanese beetle traps contain\u00a0\u00a0two sex\u00a0pheromones\u00a0in a\u00a0brightly colored container. Japanese beetles feed in groups and mate.\u00a0Pheromone traps attract far more beetles than they actually capture. You&#8217;re inviting every Japanese beetle in the neighborhood into your yard, but only a small percentage end up in the traps. If you convince the entire\u00a0neighborhood to hang up Japanese beetle traps, you may effectively stop their migration from yard to yard and effectively reduce their numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Beetle adults feed on nearly 300 different host plants. Some of the more common targeted landscape\u00a0plants include: roses (<em>Rosa <\/em><em>spp.<\/em>), flowering cherry (<em>Prunus <\/em><em>spp<\/em>.), flowering crabapple (<em>Malus <\/em><em>spp<\/em>.),\u00a0shrub althea (<em>Hibiscus syriacus<\/em>),\u00a0hollyhock (<em>Althaea rosea<\/em>), linden (<em>Tilia <\/em><em>spp<\/em>.), and\u00a0grape vines\u00a0(<em>Vitis <\/em><em>spp<\/em>.). Adults feed all day on the flowers and\/or leaves. Damaged leaf tissue takes on a lacey or skeletonized look as beetles feed between the leaf veins.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese beetle traps are useful monitoring tools for determining whether the insect population numbers in your yard necessitates pesticide control. The following pesticides are used for reducing Japanese beetles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carbaryl (Sevin\u00ae)<\/li>\n<li>Cyfluthrin (Bayer\u2122 Advanced Pest Control)<\/li>\n<li>Neem Oil (organic pesticide)<\/li>\n<li>Acephate (Orthene\u00ae)<\/li>\n<li>Triazicide\u00ae (for soil application against larvae)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago\u00a0garden centers\u00a0sold thousands of Japanese beetle traps until somebody questioned why anyone would want to\u00a0lure this summer pest into\u00a0their garden. Yes,\u00a0the traps do work and may catch hundreds per week. You also attract hundreds more to feed on your plants&#8217; flowers and leaves and, later in the year, the larvae will feed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[656,816,329,676,598,630,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}