How do japanese beetle traps work?
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Well its a bag on a holder. the holder has a block on it that attracks the beatles. The block in a horimone. the beatles go there in the bag with each other. they become traped. They stink bad too. You have to keep emptying it too because beatles smell death and then they stay away.but you also want to empty it because the beatles poo, pee and die and the smell is like a dead body
The bait smells like a pheromone that attracts them. Attracts them from everywhere. You won't just get the ones that were in your yard, you will bring them in from all over. They can smell that stuff for a very long distance. The little plastic bags will fill up quickly over and over again. Then you have to dispose of them, and they really stink when there are large numbers of them. I would use some other way, like knocking them into a bucket of soapy water or spraying with Sevin, etc.
A pheromone inside the trap attracts the beetles, the beetles fly into the plastic vanes directly over the bag, they bang into the vanes where they then drop down into the plastic bag. The inability of the Japanese beetle to fly straight up from a dead start causes them to then be forever trapped inside the plastic bag. Some people then carry off the bag and 'humanely' release the beetles. Others do the right thing.
this one i have a personal answer to, at my house, the past 3 summers we've had a japanese beetle problem, so we bought those bags... they work by using that odd smelling thing you attach to the top of the bag to attract them and so they fly towards it and fall in the bag below. They can't get out because of sumthin about the way they fly, like they can't go up for very long or sumthin like that, so they pile up in the bag until they die, let it get a quarter of the way full, then throw the bag away. Or empty the bugs into like a Ziplock baggie and zip it up and throw it away, that way it's sealed and you can reuse the bag u started with and save money!! there u go, i hope it helped!
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