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 Post subject: June Bugs?
PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2004 12:24 pm 
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Over the past several years my pecan trees have been completely stripped in the early sping. These trees are about 10 years old, and with loosing all of the leaves, it has severly stunted their growth. I have talked to the county extension agent in Sherman Tx. , and to two local nurseries, and never got any answers that helped. There was never any evidence as to what causing all of the young leaves to disappear. Last year I started noticing that the new leaves where starting to diappear again, still with no evidence of what was causing it, so I went out there at night with a flashlight and found the trees covered with what I call June bugs. These are the bugs that come out in the early sping and are seen around outside lights. They can completly strip a tree in one to two days. I have honey bees on my property and do not want to use any pesticide! Any help would bee appreciatedl


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 Post subject: June Bugs
PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:38 pm 
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'Course June bugs come from their white larvae, Grubworms. My attack plan is to squash 'em in the garden whenever I dig and to spray the yard with beneficial nematodes, keeping it wet for a couple of days afterwards. It won't kill 'em all the first year, but it should make a decent dent in their population.


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I try to deal with June Bugs or Japanese beetles two ways:

In the larvae stages up to the time of coming to the surface of the soil to become adults, I'll spray my soil around my crops in question with a good compost tea loaded with sugar, liquified whole oranges/lemons, garlic, and hot peppers to kill the larvae, and to attract their beneficial soil nematode predators to the screne.

At full adult stages, I'll sparing use a dilute 30 minute chewing tobacco tea as a contact poison on the pests. Then I normally set up several homemade traps all over the garden too. These traps are just a can inside a small bucket or larger can. The inside can contains rotten sweet fruit from the compost ingredients. The outer container has water plus a little liquid soap and canola oil in it. This lures them in for a good drowning!

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