damn japanese beetles doing a lot of damage

the japanese beetles were exceptionally vicious this year.


they ate so many of the green bean leaves that they completely stopped producing beans for three weeks while they grew more leaves.






i ended up going out with my bucket of water 3-4 times a day picking them off. this is from ONE picking. i had to throw away the trap i had, and the stores were ALL completely sold out of more traps. i went to four stores.


and not just the beans, they were on my raspberries too




all these bugs on just ONE leaf


they even were on my new blueberry bushes!


and on the purple leaf sandcherry




i hate them.

wild caterpillar

i found this crazy caterpillar


turns out its a Hyalophora Cecropia








the caterpillar will turn into this pretty moth http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/kwhcecropia.htm

my garden


sunflower


big fat fuzzy bumblebee


tomatoes


green bean flowers are weird looking

a little of everything

the pears got heavy this year




monster zucchini plant with monster zucchinis




cantelope


watermelon - they didnt get very big this year


sunflowers


just a few beans. i liked that both my foot AND puppys foot were in the frame


the bottom bean is a normal sized green bean. the upper bean is the ginormous oversized one. it makes the normal one look teeny, but its not.


beans from the oversized greenbeans


a neat fireworks puzzle


a lake house in fall puzzle

corned beef and rutabaga, pear mold, and japanese beetles

rutabaga!


chopped up


corned beef


rutabaga and carrots cooked in the leftover corned beef juice and water


corned beef, carrots, and rutabaga. the rutabaga goes really well with the corned beef with its ever so slight cabbage taste.


parker pears with its fungal infection


rubs off onto fingers (though doesnt actually rub OFF the pears, its still there)


red daylily


another red daylily


figures the unwanted pink one would be prolific


picture to try to help me locate what flowered where


japanese beetle damage to green bean leaves


japanese beetles on green bean leaves, they cling to the undersides, making them harder to find and pick off by hand.


more damage






slightly blurry japanese beetle




eggs of SOMETHING laid on a leaf. dont know what.


beetle trap that i bought two of last year. i dont recommend this kind. it unzips on the bottom to empty out the beetles. the beetles are still alive and can fly away when you unzip it. you have to dump them into water, let them die, strain the water off, and throw them away. the zipper broke the first time i opened it and i had to duck tape the bottom closed. and rain gets in the trap making a disgusting sludge at the bottom of dead and alive bugs and guts that gets all over your hands when you empty it. next year i'm using the kind with disposable bags. tie it off and be done. so gross.

amount of japanese beetles caught in only 3 days in one lure trap. they were HORRIBLE this year.