Are Japanese beetles from traps ok or are they poisoned?

[bprestin]

Well, I've been going around with a pan with a little cooking oil in it and knocking Japanese beetles into it - then when I get a bunch I sprinkle them in for the chickens. A friend of mine saw that I was doing it and said she's got 2 full bags of them in traps but her husband thought the beetles in the traps were poisoned? I'm wondering if anyone knows? I thought it was just pheromones to attract the beetles and then they fell into the bag? But maybe there is a poison in the bag?

 

[Sally PB]

https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/japanese-beetle-trap-zmaz06jjzsto

Here's some interesting information.

I catch the Japanese Beetles for my chickens similar to how you do it. When I say, "Bugs," they know what's coming and head for the door of the run!

 

[bprestin]

https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/japanese-beetle-trap-zmaz06jjzsto

Here's some interesting information.

I catch the Japanese Beetles for my chickens similar to how you do it. When I say, "Bugs," they know what's coming and head for the door of the run!

Interesting! I asked my friend if her husband put something in the bag to poison them because if he didn't add anything I think they just get attracted to the pheromones and fall into the bag and then you'd have to kill them when you got rid of them.

 

[Sally PB]

then you'd have to kill them when you got rid of them.

Or seal the bag and put it in the trash? I think that's what some people do.

The JBs are just starting now. Or else I hunted them them to near extinction last year!

 

[Sally PB]

When it comes to JBs, I am out for cold blooded revenge! They killed my hazelnut trees a few years ago when they were really bad. I didn't have chickens back then...

 

[bprestin]

ok, my friend said nothing was added to the bag but she did spray her sunflowers with a pesticide... What do you all think? Should I get her bags of beetles and feed them to my chickens?

 

[Chickassan]

Well if they have been in contact with the sunflowers I'd give them a super good rinse first since most pesticides are contact killers not injestion killers.
Might want to find out exactly what she sprayed first to be on the safe side.

ok, my friend said nothing was added to the bag but she did spray her sunflowers with a pesticide... What do you all think? Should I get her bags of beetles and feed them to my chickens?