OH The WAR has begun!

[gardeningmom]

CHARGE!!! - Time to start slaughtering those D@*!?mn japanese beetles. Put a couple of beetle bags out, gonna get a bucket of soapy water and my squishing shoe is ready!!

[AlphaDog]

You GO girl... squish a million for me! lol

I hate those things. They aren't bad here yet like they've been in the past.

[Mandy]

I FOUND ONE IN THE LIVING RM. TODAY!!! Guess who got flushed down the toilet? They are something else this year.

[Pushin-up-Daisies]

Eatin eatinnnnn there must be something that can eat these green tanks.

[Mandy]

So after checking out this site for awile this morning I decide to head outside and do some planting before it gets too muggy. I walk around a bit and much to my surprise only find one or two beetles. That is til I walk past our beautiful birch tree whose leaves look like skeltons due to the fact there's literally what looks like hundreds of J. beetles all over it. So I grab my big bucket of soapy water and go to town trying to knock them in. Unfortunately there's a big bunch out of my reach so I use my spade and try to knock them in and they fall all over me! Well you can just imagine my reaction to that! Yuck. I hope this poor tree is going to be ok. Gonna try to aim the Garden Safe high and squirt 'em.

[angmf2233]

I walked past my rose bush today and was almost attacked.I threw my arms up swinging those rotten beetles were everywhere! Had to head for the house thought I had one in my hair!Ugh! Now I'm seeing those bigger yet Green flying monsters I here them bang up against the house. Think there June bugs. Alphadog had picture here of both. I hate these things!

[AlphaDog]

Yeah, that's what they are. Big, green, hurt-when-they-hit-you June bugs.
lol