How Do You Kill Japanese Beetles On Geraniums?
Your geranium plant may be pleasing to both the eye and the nose, but its beauty also attracts the hunger of Japanese beetles. In large numbers, the beetles can swarm and overwhelm your geraniums to the point of killing them. Though geraniums have an intoxicating effect on Japanese beetles, this doesn’t seem to deter the bugs. Take immediate measures to defend your flowers from Japanese beetles. Remove the Japanese beetles manually. As they feed on geraniums, chemicals in the plant paralyze the beetles, according to research published by the University of Kentucky. Place a bucket of water under your geranium bush and shake the plant’s foliage to make the beetles fall into the water. Spray the geranium bush with an insecticide spray. The United States Department of Agriculture recommends any spray formulated with acephate, carbaryl, malathion or rotenone as effective against Japanese beetles. Mist onto your plants according to the product label’s guidelines, as toxicity varies widely by
