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Japanese Beetles

FoosIason

By FoosIason
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Anybody having a problem with these on their course... because its that time of the year for them again. They are so lovely. Especially with this lack of rain in my area... they are just starting to eat all the vegetation. Lovely little pests. My course actually sprays for them on the turf... and if its bad enough they will hire a crop duster to spray the rows of trees throughout the course.

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Yea I've seen them a lot on my home course. My ball, sitting right in the middle of the fairway was lying on a ton of them so I just picked it up and moved it so I wouldn't have to kill them all.

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  CG031 said:
Yea I've seen them a lot on my home course. My ball, sitting right in the middle of the fairway was lying on a ton of them so I just picked it up and moved it so I wouldn't have to kill them all.

Oh I kill the little bastards.

when ever I get the chance.

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  FoosIason said:
Oh I kill the little bastards.

why? they seem harmless to me? I don't think they bite or anything why kill them ya big jerk!

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  CG031 said:
Yea I've seen them a lot on my home course. My ball, sitting right in the middle of the fairway was lying on a ton of them so I just picked it up and moved it so I wouldn't have to kill them all.

Play the ball as it lies. So what if a bug goes for a ride?

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  CG031 said:
why? they seem harmless to me? I don't think they bite or anything why kill them ya big jerk!

are you kidding!? They are devastating to the golf course. They cause so much damage. The little bastards eat grass and all the leaves off the trees. Educate yourself on them a bit before you judge me.

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  CG031 said:
why? they seem harmless to me? I don't think they bite or anything why kill them ya big jerk!

Have you ever seen what they do to a rose bush? You have a beautiful rose bush, roses in full bloom. Boom. 50,000 J.B.s on the bush eating ever rose, every rose bud, every leaf. They are anything but harmless.

And before you start calling somebody a "big jerk", you might want to look in the mirror!

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  Q.Q.Quillume said:
Have you ever seen what they do to a rose bush? You have a beautiful rose bush, roses in full bloom. Boom. 50,000 J.B.s on the bush eating ever rose, every rose bud, every leaf. They are anything but harmless.

Thank you point and case.

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They're an introduced species with absolutely NO natural controls in the United States. Their numbers far outweigh any potential predators, so they pretty much go unfettered in their life cycles.

They eat vegetation as beetles, but also worth remembering is that in their larvae form (grubs) they can be devastating to turf grasses like your lawn, fairways, and greens.

I blow 'em away any chance I get. They're not harmless little bugs.

Tell a fruit farmer that they're harmless and see what happens.

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