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Japanese Beetles Beware!

7/18/2014

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I now inform you, you are far from reality.... enjoy it while you can...
H. on the rampage. New backpack sprayer engaged, with a motherlode of Diatomaceous Earth ( AKA "D.E.ath Spray").

Organic. And Effective.   Cherry Trees first, seems to be their fave.  The spray we did during War of the Roses II  (Rose Chafer Beetles that is), has kept up a decent barricade in the grapes region.  The original sprayer gave it's last gasp towards the end of that long, weary battle.  
The JB, (japanese beetles), were slower to descend this season, thankfully,  while real jobs and research of and then arrival of the new sprayer delayed the Death Spray being dispatched.   The foot soldiers arrived early last week and earlier this week the rest of these guys arrived.
Thankfully,  H. is out there, before every leaf is skelatonized and berry usurped, sprayer in hand laying down some defense.
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Grapes Mid-Wrath. These guys some of the few survivors from Rose Chafer Beetles.
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    I am T-  the other half -of the dream-wrangler team, in the Orchard adventure.  
    Mother to 3 amazing adult sons, and grandmother to the biggest rays of sunshine in our lives. Our oldest grand-daughter, we used to call "Little A", but now she is medium to tall-sized.  She is "Miss A" now. The last couple of  years she has greeted a brother, "Little R" , and this past fall, "Little Miss I" and another mister, who will be known as "Little K", arriving any day now!

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