Please stop overthinking the situation , then consider following the guidelines I provided in your other thread.

Your following guidelines are INEFFICENT and IRRATIONAL in my opinion. I asked specific questions and I'd like to receive specific answers to my questions. By the way, I finished college with Magna Cum Laude, and I speak fluent 3 foreign languages. it is easy to call someone "Illogical and overthinking" especially when you are UNCAPABLE to read and understand my post and questions.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to collect all JB using a beat sheet or dumping into soapy water. If someone placed JB trap on the border with your yard and wind blows towards your garden, then Japanese beetle can be on your yard. JB can fly as far as 2 miles. So, what goes around comes around.
Here is link
http://insects.about.com/od/insectpests/f/japanese-beetle-traps.htm
According to my research, "You want the beetles to leave your yard, not come flying in by the thousands. You are better served by a Japanese beetle trap if you present it to your neighbors as a gift. Let them hang it in their backyard, so your beetles move to their garden. Or, you've got to hold a neighborhood meeting and convince everyone to hang beetle traps, to stop the migration from yard to yard."
Some insecticides/pesticides work on JB and oriental beetles. I've noticed dead oriental and Japanese beetles around my blue spruce after I used Sevin. However, Sevin can kill beneficial insects as well. Therefore, I want only RATIONAL and EFFICIENT response. Personally, I believe my own eyes, facts, research, and recommendations of professional or experienced people. I operate by logic NOT by emotions.

i think you meant to thank jean for the time invested in answering your questions ..

ken

ps: i have 3 degrees ... but i dont brag about it ...

Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew for apples

cut down spruce,,,it may be inhabited by one or more witches

I'm with you Ken. Didn't see the other post, but jean was obviously trying t help. As for education, I have multiple degrees as well that are very relevant to these forums. I also speak four languages (Biology, Engineer, Arkan-English, and Redneck (due to where I grew up)). None of which helps anyone if nobody is listening.

Arktrees

I have a degree but who cares. This is not about how educated you are but finding someone who can answer your questions correctly educated or not.

The best information I can give you is contact your local county extension agent to answer your questions. They come to your house free and are well versed to give correct answers to your problems.

Dave

My degrees and language skills wouldn't help much in this situation. But I do grasp nasty and demanding... someone sneakily spraying pheromones on the north side of a 4' blue spruce - not so much.

Where is that other post?

I have two PHDs. That's not very smart because I can only use one post hole digger at a time.
Mike

LMAO @ Mike

I'm roaring with laughter here, Mike.

Who was it that said, "If you send a jackass to college, all you end up with is an educated jackass."?

tj

MIke wins this thread!

Lanette, I saw the strangest thing in the park the other day. The city was spraying Mosquitoes. There was a pick up scooting down the bike trail shooting insecticide of some kind out.

Now I don't know how bad the bugs would be without the truck but I know it did not kill them all. I also know it exposed some kids and teenagers and myself to some good bug spray.

I don't know if it was really worth it. The last generation's bug spray (DDT) turned into our poison (DDT). Maybe it will take two generations to figure out the effects of whatever they were using or if it is just placebo.

To apply it to your story, if the beetles are really gnawing up the foliage on my trees I do spray them. Heck, I even am treating an ash tree with imidacloprid. I am not scared of bug spray is the point. Just don't let it drive you nuts. If I wanted to kill every bug in my yard it would do considerably more harm to me than good to my trees.

Good luck.

There are plenty of folks with extensive education that are unable to solve life problems or lead people. They cripple under the pressure. Some of the smartest people I know don't have degrees.

Anyhow someone answered your question on your previous post. When JB mate they congregate on the west side of plants....doesn't matter what they are. Feeding is a different story.

So mystery solved. No one sprayed your spruce for cripes sake, lol.

Bayer Multi Insect Spray will kill them (adult beetles) on contact. They may not drop dead instantly but they will die pretty kick.

I just had to spray my Cupressina spruces. They were loaded with ants, a sure sign of aphids. Sure enough those buggers where everywhere. I don't spray willy nilly but I do when I need too.

I do have admit the whole hit the spruce with a broom and catch them with a sheet was a silly suggestion for a plant with razor sharp needles.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pests/msg0612304310652.html?4