Day 3: The Japanese Beetle Traps are Full!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Our Japanese Beetle traps are full in only 3 days…
Now we have to unload them to make room for more beetles and try to feed these to our chickens!
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#beetles #japanesebeetles
Havent seen that many beetles in one place since May 8th 1970 ;)
Well done 👏🏻
@@whitehouseonthehill 🪲🐞🪲🐞
🎉😢
sad :(
@@whitehouseonthehill we all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine
Good food for the chickens and ducks that’s awesome
My thought too, raise chickens for eggs and feed them the Beetles you catch, great money saving idea
The chickens know what's coming, they can smell the bonanza!
Orangest yolks 😋 😍
Can you eat them yourself tho? What if you toast them like salted peanuts?
@@josejj OH STOP.!! 🤮🤮🤮
@@josejj Not so sure unless the Government starts making them that way and forcing people to eat them 😖
The chickens: “Tonight ladies…. WE FEAST” *fierce cuckoo sounds*
😂
Looks like meats back on the menu girls!
@@NargulwathBeat me to it 😆
them chickens eatin GOOD
Man's got an all-you-can-eat buffet for his chickens XD
I use the same traps, they work amazingly well! When my chickens see that bag coming they go nuts!
Nice 😊
Mine won’t touch em
forbidden sunflower seeds
@@satanslittlehelper9677don’t feed them anything else but the beetles they will eat them eventually
As a zoology major and someone who loves bugs, I think this is genuinely one of the best ways to deal with pest bugs I've ever seen. Not only is it not putting pesticides out into the wild for unsuspecting insectivores to catch but it provides food for your animals as well alongside compost that can be used for your crops. Everyone, minus the beetles, wins!
EDIT: Jeez, I've never had a comment with this many likes, thanks guys :]! Also been really enjoying reading your replies, I love learning so seeing the conversations is awesome!
To be fair, i would argue this is only an issue cuz the beatles are winning a bit too much already lmfao.
Isn't it also probably good for the beatles? When the population drops down to a level that they're not a problem for their surrounding environment, it'll stop, and the beatles who procreate will have enough resources for a bit of time at least. I'm no scientist or anything, but that's my thoughts as an outsider.
@@cassandrafiscus9192 Well I’d imagine the one person would stop, yes, but it is likely that other people would continue trapping them to wipe out their populations in the area completely. An optimistic guess on my part, as there really would be no way to calculate every person’s reaction to the situation.
@@BlinksTehShit I could’ve sworn I posted a reply to this 😂 UA-cam ate it, I guess. My belief on this is that it’s the best reaction towards the unfortunate situation; Pythons are winning too much in the Everglades, so the best course of action is one where everyone BUT the python wins. No chemicals that can leak into the water or leech into alligators that may eat pythons and do god knows what, no trapping that may inadvertently affect other wildlife, just straight targeting the invasive itself. The fact is that a lot of pest control involves chemicals and frankly, I’m just glad to see pest control at all that doesn’t use it, double so on an invasive species.
@@jonathanredding6228 I suppose that's true. I didn't even think about other people who may live in the infested area.
For those who haven't encountered these, the bags of dead beetles quickly smell like the dumpster behind a Red Lobster.
How is this not the top comment?
Shrimps is bugs
This is so true it teleported me to my farm growing up
the red lobster dumpster dont smell THAT bad!
Yeah dude, it's freaking awful
When these things first started showing up in Indiana we used these scented traps, except we were eventually using and filling 50 gallon lawn refuse bags.
Dude, how big did your chicken farm get before you collapsed the population?
@@Trahloc🤣🤣
These have always been around where I live.
Was gonna say they really do fill the 50 Gal trash bags if you tape them to the traps.
Oh I get them here in Fort Wayne. Get about 25 floating in my swimming pool every hour.
So cool you feed them to the dinosaurs. They love it.
? Their chickens not dinasours
@@helinameinhard7133birds are dinosaur s ,
@@helinameinhard7133 chickens are in fact tiny dinosaurs
@@helinameinhard7133chickens r the descendants of dinos
@@GodsOath_comthats cap 🧢🧢🧢🧢take a picture on google so i can believe you
So many invasive species. Thank you for helping!
Chickens are really the gift that keeps on giving
Nice way to lay that one on us.
Free feed, free fertilizer
The chickens will eat the bugs, and they will be happy
i would say that for the beetles 😂 they just keep coming food for days
My neighbors here in PHX have chickens---we love them because they eat scorpions! Who eat the crickets, and the chickens also eat the crickets, so it's win-win for all of us!
I was swimming in a waterpark, and I found one of these guys in the water. I let it crawl on my hand until it bit me. I hate them now. Doing good work and keeping chickens fed
What did the bite do? Was it ouchy & itchy like a standard, bug bite? Or something different?
They’re also invasive & harmful to the local plant life.
They don’t bite. Their legs are pretty spiky though. Their teeth aren’t strong enough to bite our skin. Those prickly legs can hurt though.
@@AlexAlex-ov9qe I got bit last week
@@SpirantLank. it was it legs. omg dont anyone research anymore.
I used to have rose bushes in front of my house, now I house these beetles on the twigs they left behind. Buying this trap today 👏🏻
Pounds of free protein for the birds. Huge win!
Yeah. If you like the smell and them finding their way into everything you own.
@@simpleg7559 Freeze them first then defrost for the feed.
For birds? Nah they for me
@@ghostnugget1911 This person knows what's up
@@simpleg7559 ..you know you can freeze them to kill them right?
Using biology and physics to trap bugs, now that is awesome, and probably very cost effective
Very
@@whitehouseonthehill cool
These traps are basically man-made pitcher plants.
Saves BIG on feed for the birds, too.
we learned from nature, that is how a lot of carnivorous plants work.
I like that you are keeping it natural, using them for feed and compost. So smart and definitely resourceful! Better than poisoning the environment without much results, like what usually happens. This is a win in my book. Well done sir!
You're right in the first half but wrong in the second.
@@joeycampbell940not gonna substanciate how burning rainforests for soybean feed isn't poisonous to the environment? Or using pesticides and excessive fertilizers aren't poisonous?
@@eadfacaadcacaea4837 generally no
@@eadfacaadcacaea4837 Nah, he doesn't know enough to even try
animal farming is the opposite of resourceful
People put these up in my neighborhood, not understanding that they need to be away from the house. Thanks for taking my beetles neighbors.
Why do you want beetles
@@johnstiles6663 You don't they're taking them from me and doing me a service but they're not removing them from their house like they think. I mean ultimately a lot go in the bags but they're not made to go by a house in the suburbs, they for a field or something to either draw them away from the house or away from crops.
I'm tempted to put one up at the empty house next door, because they have zero going on (no one living there) and nothing but a half dead lawn. Take em away from my big garden!!
Pro tip, freeze them and then feed. That way you don’t give the a chance to fly away. Effectively kill the bugs because they’re evasive
How long would it take to freeze a large quantity you reckon?
@@cheeseburgerpaladin you could use liquid nitrogen
evasive and invasive
@@cheeseburgerpaladinnot that long if your patient and already have feed
Good thing they're in cages
RESCUE is the brand of traps. They make one that catches flies too that I saw on another channel that was having fly problems with their cattle. With the fly traps, there is a bottle that you hang on a string and dump a packet of bait and fill halfway with water. I wanted something to hang near dog kennels because we've had a big issue with flies this year.
In just one day, the bottle was a quarter full and completely full by the end of the week. The trap with bait was about $10 but you can dump the flies out and buy just the bait packets to refill it over and over. I ordered them on Amazon for less than $3 a piece.
The trap is amazing. I've never seen a product work so well getting rid of pests and apparently their Japanese Beetle traps work that good too.
They make mosquito and wasp traps too same premises
That fly trap is amazing. I had a similar experience with how fast it fills up
I have 3 of those fly traps around my yard as flies have been a problem due to the dogs waste. They go crazy around the storage bin I have to out the baggies in before the garbage comes. Those traps get full every day or so it’s crazy how well they work. They also make fly paper that I put around the bin and have to change it every few days
@@TheRealRusDaddy I definitely need to try the mosquito one. My wife and youngest kid are magnets for them.
I'll need to try these, thanks!
let me give you a tip i just discovered because i have fruit trees and you know how those japanese beetles love them... well i thought i'd try hanging some irish spring soap in all the trees to see if it would have an effect because i heard people claim they keep other pests away. At first i thought it wasn't working because I was still finding some, but the trees never got fully attacked. only a little. the strong smell of the soap disrupts their scent that calls more or something like that. It really works!! I have a serious problem with these pests, so i was really amazed. hope this helps.
I wonder if this is why I am getting bit by less mosquitoes lately. I just recently switched to their soap as it's cheaper and smells nice.
@@Bulmachan224🦟i am like a gourmet treat to "squiters", so [thanx to U] i am going to buy irish🍀spring soap a.s.a.p!
😘💨🩷 THANK-U❣️
@@Bulmachan224 irish spring dries out my skin and stuff 😭 really need some tho because mosquitos love me
this is a good tip but it’s also likely to effect other beneficial species like moths and pollinators that also use pheromones to communicate.
It’s best not to use broad solutions against pests to avoid collateral damages
@@goowoo69420 I can't say it defeats them fully but I have noticed less biting. I am allergic to them so I definitely feel it when they bite me.
Free food for the chickens. Lovely arrangement imo.
Happy chickens! Good on you for taking an invasive species but not letting their little lives go to waste. Circle of life! 💖
This is such a lovely comment 💕
beetles be dying of entity cramming 💀
Lmaooo
That does look like hell though... imagine being at the bottom?
If you freeze them first and put them in water, ive found them more likely to eat them and it helps hydrate the chickens more, plus they cant escape cause they're dead from being frozen.
Those traps and the fly traps like it are great. Extremely effective and easy to use.
Buckets of Beatles sounds like a sick band name
Hit song like
Keratin and guts
Stinking up the windowsill
Buzz off
Those thin legs
What a wonderful use of resources! Not only are you removing pests but you are repurposing them as food. Amazing!
Super fact! Starlings gobble up Japanese beetles like we eat popcorn at the movies, so remember that when you curse starlings.
How do you get rid of an invasive species? You get another invasive species to eat them! Now we can only find a good predator for starlings…
Starlings are like a well oiled but rambunctious army. They sweep in and empty the bird feeders in a minute flat and then roost and murmur.
They probably go for crop first tho
@@ShutterbugVideo671 easy. just introduce ANOTHER invasive species that will eat them
The eggs you are going to get will be incredible! Those traps are brilliant.
My work just got these in a little while ago, we put them out back and they were full in an hour, truly and amazing product
It's been 30 years but I still remember the scent of those traps
I remember one particular summer when the beetles were so bad we needed 5 traps for a probably 400 square foot garden. one at every corner and one in the middle. Full at the end of EVERY DAY. I do not miss them 😂
I LOVE your idea of feeding them to the chickens!! Creating a more sustainable and healthy world...
I saw another farmer who started freezing gallon bags of these beetles cuz his traps would fill up so quickly.
He'd then fill a pan with some water and dump the frozen beetles in and the chickens would have a chilly treat on summer days.
He probably still has enough for them to have snacks throughout winter too lol. You could try something like that if you're gathering a huge excess and want more ways to use em!
I believe he did that last year. I am pretty sure it made his freezer smell nasty.
Yeah, we tried that. Almost ruined our freezer. Dead beetles smell like death.
@@whitehouseonthehill Is drying them in the sun an option?
@@whitehouseonthehill Maybe getting a shitty freezer that can be outside is an option?
Looks so gross 🤢
I'm so glad people are working out safe ways to clear bugs and recycle them
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Those traps work really good. I got one for flies when I forgot to take the trash cans out to the road and i couldn't believe how fast it filled up.
Oh god we had similar traps in our chicken coops for flies and if you forgot to change them (and frankly even if you didn't) it would turn into a maggoty soup and the smell was so rough. Little dinosaurs didn't give a crap and those were the best eggs I've ever had so idk lol
I love that this seems like a minimalistic approach with spectacular results.
It's always refreshing to see something that can be described as a Eureka moment as well as an obvious forehead slap. Chickens be loving it!
Its crazy to think theres just millions of bugs right outside your house that you just dont see
Absolutely!
the beetles are pretty easy to see when it is season. they crowd in and cover whole bushes.
there are BILLIONS of bugs you don't see - most of them above you.
@@agnidas5816 That's so cool! You're pretty clever!
And there's dozens in your house you don't see!
@@agnidas5816bro disagreed then agreed
Dude that’s crazy that’s so many beetles!!! Imagine the ones that didn’t get caught! Glad you got some free chicken feed 😊
The chickens be having a five-star meal
Now thata a pest problem. Good thing you have chickens to feed them too.
OMG That's what they are!! I have been catching them by hand and drowning them in a ranch bottle of water. I finally made a dent in the population. Didn't know I could buy traps for them! Thanks!
What?! You've been catching them!? 😂😂😂😂 is that now your job?
Hi, when you say ranch bottle of water, do you mean an empty bottle of ranch dressing you filled with water? Thank you!
@jeffreychau7809 hahaha yeah. I figured the bottle neck would make it hard for them to climb up the sides out of the water
@kellsbellls they are decimating the wild grapes growing over the fence from my neighbor so I wanted to try and help 😅
Not to be a buzzkill but make sure to research the traps first! They’re clearly very good at catching the bugs but they’re also very good at attracting them. I imagine that would be fine for a big property but problematic for a little one. Idk your situation so maybe they will be a good choice for you but just a heads up! I was going to use them but decided not to because I didn’t want every beetle in town coming to my little backyard garden lol
Feeding them to the chickens is beautiful work dude.
My mom used those until we figured out that the scent traps was attracting the beetles from the surrounding yards. Haven’t had any trouble with them since!😊
We got permission to put the traps in the big wild field behind our houses here.
It's an odd shaped lot between us and the golf course. It's used as a natural buffer to keep the golfing towards the actual course. We do live out in the boonies tho.
The golf course owner actually had his maintenance guy put the posts in for us and mow a long looping trail around the area so we can walk it in the evenings and we can dump the traps.
He paid for the posts as long as the 3 homes buy the traps.
I used to feed my chickens the bugs but there were so many they soon didn't like them. We have a small hole that is dug each year (well drilled the golf course guy has a big drill on his tractor) quite deep and a pile of dirt next to it. We dump the beetles in and cover with dirt about once a week.
They do tend to slow down and we don't have as many as we used to in the area.
But oofta! They stink something fierce almost as bad as the little red lady bugs we occasionally get swarms of. 😮
Duh! Much?
Seeing these eat so many plants all around where I live is so sad. Thanks for doing your part!!
I am very proud of you! What a great way to control bugs and feel chickens!
Happy chickens!
YAY! :D
*Insert chicken dance song sped up
10 hours*
Ahhhh this takes me back. I remember when I was a kid in the mid 90s a lot of the houses in our neighborhood had these bags hanging out front to catch beetles cause they were such a problem. Gave the area a pretty unique smell
Mr Creosote chickens; 'I'm stuffed. Bggr off.' 'Ah just one more tiny wafer-thin beetle?' 'Oh alright...'
It’s wafer thin!
one thin beetle 😂
Weffer-theeen
I am still amazed by the amount of beetles 😮
Wow, i bet those chickens lay some INCREDIBLY delicious and nutritious eggs 😋
Beetle Juice Beetle Juice Beetle Juice
@@LaplacianDalembertian LOL
These traps work so well, I remember using them almost 20 years ago now to save a tree these Beetles wouldn't leave alone
Thank you for being environmentally friendly. I love that you can feed them to your chickens. Good protein for them I would think.❤😊 I wish everyone with deal with tests like you. Thanks!!😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
they must be breeding like crazy all the bags are full!!
They do. Left unchecked, someday they will rule the world.
I was so happy the other day saying I hadn’t seen any all year, and then today I realized one of my favorite plants was covered in them 😂
Why people don't realize jynxing yourself is real.....
Thnk u for helping save our fields bro. You deserve recognition for DOING something.... No matter how big or small, you took action!! THANK YOU ✌️
Used to use the traps then we stopped and we have very few issues now. The scented traps can draw them in for up to 1/4 mile. So we were drawing them in from everywhere else not just our place. Now I guess you could go drop the scent package in a field or yard about 1/4 mile away and draw them away from YOUR place.
Or kill everything within 1/4 mile.
My neighbor uses them and he has far less bugs than I do right on the other side pf the horse barn
My quails love them
That's insane!! But I'm glad there not eating your plants anymore❤❤
It’s such a beautiful thing seeing a trap be so effective at its job
I'm so happy for your birdies.😊😊
That's... actually genius! I wish i knew this back when i was raising them, i normally just bought live crickets for feed n treat's.
thank you for what you are doing. they hurt our trees and its great for the chickens. win win
You are an inspiration to us all. thanks
Great solutions and friendly with the resto of the environment. Love stuff like this
This is the 2nd year that we've been dealing with them here in NH. They are incredibly destructive. I'm on the fence with the traps though. I sometimes think that it attracts MORE beetles than I would have otherwise.
Maybe, but that's also more that you're reducing from the overall population.
Keep the beetle traps away from areas that you don't want to be destroyed, the traps will take them away from those areas. I heavily reccomend you also treat your soil with milky spore bacteria as it ONLY kills the japanese beetle grubs and nothing else that will actually benifit you. With the benifit that the accumulated beetles wont be able to repopulate in your yard. Also ask your neighbors to treat their soil too. With enough people doing it they can be completely irradicated from an area. But only doing it yourself is a sunk cost, no invasive species will be removed from an area by just one person.
There is another post talking about a study that showed they do cause more damage in the area of the trap vs a control area. They estimate 75% are caught leaving 25% in the area to feed.
Wisconsonite here, been dealing with them for decades in my garden and tried everything. No joke. Best solution is to be proactive when they are grubs in the grass. They lay their eggs in grass and the larvae eat the grass roots which also makes dead spots in your lawn. This coming August I'll be spreading an organic grub killer on my turf called GRUB GONE which will kill them in larvae state. The eggs would normally hatch late summer and the larvae feed in fall and overwinter until spring, finish growing next spring and hatch next June... and fly around and eat EVERYTHING! if I get them in the larval state there's nothing to hatch next year! I like nipping the problem in the bud. Why deal with them after the fact when you can prevent them in the first place. My 2 cents, and hopefully will save your garden and sanity. Took me over 15 years to earn that knowledge 😊
And another thing... you are right about the traps. If a beetle smells that scent 5 houses down he's going to fly over there. The ones that don't get trapped will lay eggs in your yard which means you'll gave an even bigger problem next year when they hatch!! MORE eggs being layed in your yard. Without a trap, they mostly stay in the general proximity of where they hatched. If you use organic grub killer you will reduce the population to much less. It's not 100% elimination but in my yard I would estimate 90% and I can deal with that over dealing with them after they've hatched. They used to desolate my fruit trees but no more.
That’s a blessing. You’ll never have to pay for feed for your chickens ever again.
They're an invasive species that kill ecosystems. It's not a blessing, it's a man making the best of a *really* shitty, uncontrollable situation
except in winter
@@utubechannel3846 They go dormant when you freeze them, like many insects do. They say Japanese beetles can survive down to 9 degrees Fahrenheit. When they thaw out, they wake up, but move very slowly for awhile. With the amount he's gathering, you might just be able to stockpile buckets of them for the season with a large freezer.
@@utubechannel3846 well Mother Nature can only help out so much, the rest we gotta finish on our own 😀
@@Lost_n_Found_1 Yes, I thought that they go dormant. But, you are correct, they probably stockpile for winter. Thanks for the information. :)
the birds are like, what did he just put down here !!!
The bags come with one scent lure in them already. And the scent lures can be bought separately.
If you’re having issues with flies or big flies, there are similar traps for those as well.
Dude!! That is a genius idea!!!
I’m totally buying some of these.
I’m sure my chickens will be sending their regards soon. 😂❤
They have a phenomenon that draws even the neighbors bugs to your , don't buy them
@@shirleycosby6908yep research proves this. They catch a lot but also draw more to other parts of your property. These beetles are attracted to both feeding and sex pheromones so a few hanging out nearby make it way worse than it would have been otherwise
@@ElessarofGondor However, it's good if your primary use is to get free chicken feed
Those traps for the beetles is like social media for humans
Because we live in a society?
That one bee in the mid and bottom to fall first 🥲
Never heard of these before but holy 💩 that’s a lot of them…. It’s cool to see you finding a use for all of those beetles too. I bet your chickens are really happy to get fresh food so much.
This is perfect. I'd honestly consider these beetles to be a blessing as a farmer over a pest.
The problem with them is they’re really invasive and destroy crops and native grasses.
If you live in North America, they are considered HIGHLY invasive. They destroy both local vegetation and crops.
Apparently, studies conducted at the University of Kentucky and Eastern Illinois University suggest beetles attracted to traps frequently do not end up in the traps; instead, they land on plants in the vicinity and cause more damage along the flight path and near the trap than may have occurred if the trap were not present.
That is why I hang my traps in my chicken yard.
.... my pool filter does a good job of catching them to, but i haaaaateee emptying the basket full of them
Extremely effective and environmentally friendly, I love it!
Where do they come from?
Are that many beetles just flying around?
Thousands and thousands and thousands of them everywhere they eat everybody's crops.
They come from the ground.
They are an invasive species that lay their larva underground in fields or lawn, where it eats the roots of grasses.
I gotta tell you: that same brand makes a fly trap. It works really well.
Once it is full, let me tell you.....
You know it is full before you see it, just by smell.
They are very effective, but I think I prefer the nuisance of swatting flies to gagging on the smell of those traps:-/
@@carolyntalbot947 they are rancid a couple years ago i bought a octo sided sticky trap was about 10 inches tall caught thousands of flies without any smell. if the flys get really bad this year ima have to look for that trap again
what is the name?
Good news is all the beetles are coming to your property and away from the neighbours! 😂
It looks sort of satisfying 😂 and the fact that it’s helping the environment makes it better ❤
ooh, the chunking noises as they hit the bottom of the bucket!!😊
Chickens chickens. Hooray!!
Chicken thanksgiving today
Best ad for these beetle traps
These traps actually attract more beetles from the area to your specific property.
Mom got some for the garden years ago and we noticed our beetle population tripled in our yard (out in the country) we got rid of the traps and eventually the numbers returned to normal but i do not reccomend getting these unless theyre for a neighbor across the street
I love doing this, it sounds like the chickens are eating popcorn.
they went from uncontrollable pests to high demand chicken feed 😂😂😂
Those traps are amazing, I've used them before, I wish all traps were like that
Good work keep it up ive got them down to a minimum on my 3 acres in northeast Georgia.
These Beatles absolutely took over our entire childhood summer for a few years when i was a kid. It fealt like there was 2 beetles for every lesf and they were gross making play outside impossible
That was amazing. It looks like you should have double the amount of traps
That's crazy. There's so many! 😮
We need some for pine Beatles here in Colorado! Half our forests have been wiped out here. Massive fire danger that has to be fixed by clear cuts.
I love how organic his methods are
They developed those around my area, they started with bags in trees and then odd boxes and eventually those bags. It has taken years though, I remember this all started when I was a kid.
My yard birds would absolutely love those. That is so freaking cool
Thank you for feeding them to your chickens
We need more of these cause these beetles are invasive
Its unreal how good those work!
I love the music, it’s really fitting for the scene. I just can’t help but imagine if those Beetles were humans and that it was a giant saying “these are my traps, I put weed in here and they just kind of fall in then they can’t get out”. All while that music is playing.
That brand of fly trap is amazing. I've used them before for house flies and they work Wonderful😊