I spray the affected plants with a dish soap/EO/neem/water mixture as strong as I dare, hopng to repel them, but it doesn't kill the beetles. I could increase the neem I suppose. This seems to repel them for a day. I do not spray this on the rhubarb which they also like, hoping I can use the rhubarb as a trap. I can cut those leaves off, which can have as many as a dozen on one, and dunk the whole leaf in a bucket of soap water. Next year I will try growing the sweet potatoes in a bag on the asphalt, where the beetles don't seem to go. It's all a learning curve!
So sick of cucumbers. I would not have thought that possible until this year.
Spray them with alcohol if they are that concentrated on your plants. It will evaporate right away, and they will be dead!
I hear they have beetle traps that really tear them up too.
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I've been warned off from the traps - supposedly they will attract every beetle for miles around. I'll give the alcohol a shot on my rhubarb first, since I don't need that as much as I need the sweet potatoes this year. Thanks for the info! Just straight alcohol?
I just use the 70% rubbing alcohol, added to neem oil. If the beetles all die, who cares? They compost fine I'm sure....
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OK I'm gonna try it. These things are driving me insane. so many!!!
Maybe try a vacuum cleaner too? If there were that many, I bet it would lay waste to them! The little upolstery brush would loosen them up, and the vacuum will remove them.
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hm. You have such great ideas. Thanks!
Just hate bugs...and love veggies!
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If you had chickens, they eat Good, ROFLOL! I guess things can be a trial, and a mixed blessing....
Be blessed!
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