What is the best way to get rid of Japanese beetles?
Yeah well join the club. These things are super tough critters and don’t give up easily. I am also one who does not want to use pesticides so I have tried to find natural solutions. The Japanese beetles like my crepe myrtle and my serviceberry shrub very much. I pick them off by hand alot. I also crush the beetles on the leaves. I know that is gross, but it seems to deterr them somewhat. Apparently they don’t like the scent their dead bodies give off. I also have made home made spray made of hot sauce, garlic cloves and water blended up in a blended and strained the juice and used that. The recipe I found on line from an organic gardening website. The Japanese beetles do not like garlic. I also planted garlic bulbs in the ground. That too is meant to deter the critters from burying in the ground and laying their eggs when the time comes. So as you can see, I have been on this quest. I think all of these things have helped somewhat. And maybe perhaps because my neighbors have hung up th
