Anyone tried Japanese Beetles trap into run?

[Barred Rocks forever]

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yeah i almost had the same issue but my chickens ate them fast

 

[Urbanfarmerkc]

I found a site that showed how you can raise the traps up 10 feet into the air and that'll help keep the beetles away from your stuff. I am going to put mine up right through the chicken pen so when they slide down, they are chicken feed. Should save me some significant money on feed and manage those blasted bugs!

 

[gavinandallison]

If you go to youtube and type in Japanese Beetle traps there are 3 longish videos showing how to set up traps and to feed them to chickens!! Quite good fun to watch........

 

[arianna]

Thank you Gavinandalison

Here's the link I found on Youtube

 

[chickendogfarm]

Japanese beetle traps do work. The problem with them is that they use a pheromone to attract more beetles. So unless you locate the traps on the edge of your property or away from your garden, although the trap will catch beetles, it will simply attract more and the following year you will have more grubs and beetles. If where u keep your chickens in far away from your garden...than this idea night work.

 

[snowflake]

I have used the traps but never thought of feeding them to the chickens. good idea, I found that I had more bugs when I hung the traps, last year I worked at feeding and letting the hens go through the garden and eat the grubs, they love them and the # of beetles was much lower.

 

[Howard E]

Bump..........rather than start a new thread, decided to pick an older one and bump it.

We have a thriving population of Japanese beetles at our new place. Tons of them. They stripped stuff last year and showed up again in mass this year.

Decided to try the Bag a Bug trick and it works and works well. I have caught about 3 quarts of them so far today and the day is not yet over. The only chemical used is the attractant, which smells much like cintronella. They fly to it, then go into the bag like falling into a black hole, which then does become a black hole......with hundreds and hundreds of beetles in it. A bag will hold about 3 to 4 quarts of them.

My 8 week old pullets just stare at them and watch them fly off......but neighbors older birds went after them like candy.

If you have these bugs and birds, I am thinking you could hang the bag in the run and as long as you have enough birds to keep up, they will take care of the problem. I have about 10X more than my birds could eat. The fish in our neighbor's pond will get those. And tomorrow is another day, as is the day after that. Hoping my birds figure it out and get busy.