Hooray, we found solutions to two bug problems in our yard! We had so many flies we couldn’t enjoy sitting on our patio. Then a miracle: we hung a Rescue Outdoor Fly Trap bag below our bird feeders, and within a day a zillion flies were trapped. Within 2 weeks it was thousands, no kidding. We could enjoy our patio in peace, providing we install a new trap every 2 weeks, because it gets so full. $5.75 well spent at Walmart or Home Depot. Hint: these traps are so popular that store shelves go empty in early summer, so buy yours before fly season gets intense. Or buy on Amazon where 5 traps are cheaper in bulk. And…
Then another tragedy: in June we noticed tons of Japanese beetles eating the leaves on our arborvitae evergreens plus two Japanese maple trees. Duh, Japanese beetles like Japanese maples, duh! Now we finally knew what happened last summer when ALL LEAVES on our tiny new Japanese maple disappeared one week while we were away from home. We thought it was dead, but it grew leaves back this spring, and now we know the leaves were eaten by beetles last year! So we hung a Spectracide Beetle Trap ($5.98 at home store or Walmart) low on our bird feeder pole, and beetles went into it instead of the trees. We had hundreds of beetles and ended up with 3 traps in the yard, and it worked! By early July the plague of beetles invading ended, seems they all swarm at the same time of the day for a couple weeks during mating season. We discovered the traps after trying to first to spray beetles, but that required being at the trees constantly from 11am until 3pm (when the beetles appear in droves) because so many came every minute. If you don’t kill these beetles, you’ll have more trouble. Right after they mate, the female digs into your lawn where her eggs in her body hatch, creating bunches of grubs who will eat up the roots of your lawn. When you see a yellow spot here and there, it may be the beetles at work. Then next spring they emerge as beetles and the cycle repeats. Heads up: buy your traps before bug season peaks, the store shelves sell out when the bugs are swarming.

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