Thursday, June 15, 2017

Am I affecting the beetle population by hand picking?

The beetles are back.  In glancing back through my blog with the search term "beetles," it seems I'm not making a dent in the population of Japanese beetles.  I wonder if they would be worse if I didn't bother trying to pick them off.  I have to ask myself if there are enough of the ones that I can't reach that they attain their maximum sustainable population each year anyway.
Anyway, I've tossed quite a few over to my neighbor's chickens, and I've also drowned some in sudsy water.  Here are some I knocked off over the course of a couple of days (not counting the ones I gave to the chickens).

All I can say is here we go again.

2 comments:

  1. Wow, NO! it doesn't look like the population is diminishing, but you have most likely saved some of your plants anyway! But then you know that. That is pretty personal intensive, I would think.

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  2. They are here too. I picked a dozen or so off our basil and tossed them to the chickens.

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