Making the most of Japanese Beetle season

By Joy Hewett
Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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Pittsboro, NC - To make the most of the invasion of Japanese beetles, follow these steps:

1. Plant roses, rose of sharon bushes, lots of pretty flowers.

2. Buy some hens.

3. When summer comes and flowers and roses are blooming, get a pitcher or vessel for water.

4. Let your hens loose. (Or let hens loose before you carry the water).

5. Go to where the beetles are making lace of the leaves of any plant you love, or having an orgy in your blossoms.

6. With one quick motion, catch a few beetles with one hand, and the other hand with the container of water going underneath
the beetle infested leaves, so the beetles fall into the container waiting right below.

7. Continue with this method of grabbing beetles and snaring others in water--be fair and get both the top and bottem beetle to avoid catching of only ones on bottom.

8. Once you have a container with plenty of beetles floating in water, call your chickens.

9. Feed the beetles--chicken candy--to your hens. You can either do this by hand or let them dip into water if you don't want a few quick beak pecks in the palm.

10. You will be a chick magnet in no time!

Guaranteed to work!