Japanese beetles and oaks?

Boy, you ARE the lucky one. In the burbs, where there are lots of choices, the oaks don't get eaten at all.
Linden, #1. Birches, #2. Elms (of all stripes) #3. Fruit trees #4, and we haven't had a single request to control them on oaks.
Go figger.

Trust me I'm not in the burbs and I've never seen a jap beetle on any oak tree here and I've got TONS of oaks - I wish they would!

Fruit trees, chestnut trees, and rose bushes are a whole different animal - I started the war on jap beetles a few weeks ago and every time I think I'm making progress I find another orchard infested with them and break out the sprayer again - I thought they were bad last year - this year is even worse.

I know I've personally killed 1000's upon 1000's of them this year!

UrbanHunter said:

Boy, you ARE the lucky one. In the burbs, where there are lots of choices, the oaks don't get eaten at all.
Linden, #1. Birches, #2. Elms (of all stripes) #3. Fruit trees #4, and we haven't had a single request to control them on oaks.
Go figger.

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Just curious UH - I assume by your post you're in the pest control field - what is the weapon of choice for pros on jap beetles?

I have a lot of oaks primarily pin Concordia and red. I have noticed that the pin oaks is what they prefer. They don’t touch the tulip poplar, sweet gum at all. I think that they have a preference to fruit trees but I have zero fruit trees

CD2- we're using cyfluthrin or acephate (Tempo & Orthene) depending on what else is getting sprayed that day.
Tempo label is 1.9 to 5 oz per hundred gal regardless of what you're killing. We go 3-4 ounces per hundred to get longer residual.
Orthene gets good residual cause it's mildly systemic (translaminar), but is spendy.
If I was spraying my own trees (NOT edibles) I'd use acephate.

They use to bother my Blackberries but not this year. So far I've gotten about 8 Gallons. Got 6 Gallons of Strawberries.

My Cedar Trees are giving me more trouble than anything now.

I use Traps for Japanese Beetles.

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The Big Grin is a Berry Good Girl.

@CuivreDog2 all of ours must have flown your way.

I've only seen a fraction this year of what I've seen in the past couple of years. I was thinking all the rain had something to do with it but evidently that's not the case.