Start by spraying the affected plants with Japanese Beetle Killer (pyrethrin) or neem at the first sign of attack. Pyrethrin-based insecticide is a safe and effective way to control these pests on vegetables, grapes, raspberries, flowers, roses, trees and shrubs.

Japanese Beetles use their antennae to pick up scents that attract them to their mates and various plants. You can repel Japanese Beetles by utilizing scents they hate, such as wintergreen, gaultheria oil, teaberry oil, peppermint oil, neem oil, wormwood oil, juniper berry oil, chives, and garlic.

The use of homemade insecticidal soap or castor oil soap is another Japanese beetle home remedy worth trying. If all else fails, look towards eradicating their young larva or grubs, which eventually become Japanese beetles. Treat the soil in your lawn and garden with Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) or milky spore.

Dead or squished beetles do not attract more live beetles to plants. The beetles are attracted to the release of plant oils when the plants are being chewed. This group dining party is called aggregation feeding. Squished beetles do not serve as a repellent when chopped and sprayed over plants.

Wild Animals: Many species of wild animals also will eat Japanese beetles. Wild birds known to eat these beetles include robins, cat birds and cardinals. Mammals – namely opossums, raccoons, skunks, moles and shrews — will eat beetle grubs, but you can also expect them to dig up your lawn in the process.

Besides using a commercial insecticide, using our Safer Brand® Japanese Beetle Trap, you can interrupt and break the mating cycle, eliminating the bugs in your yard. DynaTrap® insect traps can also cover up to an acre, giving your yard full protection while luring in and ridding the pests.

Marigolds can effectively keep Japanese beetles away from other plants in your garden. Japanese beetles prefer to feed on marigolds, so you should a bed of marigold flowers near your favorite plants so the beetles will gravitate towards the marigolds instead of the rest of your garden.

You can boil the coffee grounds along with a few gallons of water and use it as a spray or simply spread some coffee grounds on the soil. This will help keep away the beetles, or suffocate them to death.

Sevin® Insect Killer Ready To Use, in a convenient spray bottle, kills Japanese beetles and more than 500 types of insect pests by contact.

Adults emerge from the ground and begin feeding on plants in June. Activity is most intense over a 4 to 6 week period beginning in late June, after which the beetles gradually die off.

The objective of the federal Japanese Beetle Quarantine is to protect the agriculture of the Western United States and prevent the human-assisted spread of the beetle from the Eastern U.S. The federal quarantine is designed to reduce artificial spread of Japanese beetles by aircraft.

When temperatures warm up, like they did last week or on an unusually warm winter day or early in the spring, the beetles will emerge. Then they will become a nuisance. Conveniently, they are attracted to living areas where temperatures are moderate, so you’ll know when they’re awake.

Japanese binders have unique opening mechanisms that are easy to use. This Kokuyo Campus Binder has a sliding tab that opens the rings. Western binders use metal rings with a spring mechanism that can be difficult to open. In addition, closing the rings usually means squeezing them shut, which can be painful if a finger gets caught in the prongs.

Thanks to the Safer Brand Japanese Beetle Trap, you can effectively control the population of these garden pests in your yard without the need to spray chemicals. This trap uses a powerful lure to attract beetles away from your plants and into the collection bag, effectively trapping them inside and disrupting the breeding cycle.

The Safer Brand The Japanese Beetle Trap uses a food and sex attractant to lure insects into the trap and disrupt the mating cycle. A controlled release system maximizes the life of the attractant and protects the attractant from environmental degradation. Comes with 1 trap, 1 lure, and 2 jumbo bags.

Japanese Beetles weigh about 3000 to the pound or about one Spectracide bag. The Safer bag might hold 1.5 pounds. I empty the bags into a bucket of soapy water, rinse on a wire screen and deliver the beetles to three local chicken ranchers. Chickens LOVE to eat beetles.