It's Been Awhile, But We Have Some Bugs

It's been a fun and crazy past month and, as evidenced by our bare July calendar, we have yet to post this month.  I will remedy that this morning and then Megan will more than make up for it when she explains our adventures and our happenings.  Be prepared to be inundated with our exploits...

My brief post will deal with something that I find absolutely fascinating.  Here it is:

This is a bag-a-bug designed to capture Japanese Beetles (also known as a jitterbug).  These little gold and green critters love to eat our garden, so Megan took a trip to Lowes and $6 later she had a plastic bag with a holder and a pheromone capsule that we hung about 30 feet from our garden.  Apparently Japanese beetles absolutely love this little smelly thing so they fly at it and then fall into the bag.  After a day or so they are dead in the bag, but usually they are already covered by their fallen comrades before that happens.  Here's how many we caught in about 10 days.

I hadn't seen this many beetles around our garden before we bought he bag, so I'm assuming we're capturing all the bugs in the area.  If you ever get a Japanese beetle infestation, I highly recommend this plastic bag o' death since I haven't seen a single one eating our garden since we put this bag up.