GROSS!

I love raspberries.

This year my raspberries must have been given some steroids, because we've got a pretty good bounty when compared with last year's 38 berries.

And I love having a fresh bunch to enjoy every few days.

I do NOT love the nasty beetles that are doing THIS to my raspberry patch (and yard trees, and roses bushes and clematis and morning glories.....you get the idea.).

So I was advised to purchase a japanese beetle trap.

It will work! was the endorsement.

So I bought one. And put it up.


Here's how full it is (all-over-body cringe).
So YES, it's caught a TON of these icky buggars, but I also STRONGLY suspect that the bait to catch them has also attracted ALL of these beetles to MY yard.
To fly around attacking anything green and anything that gets in their flight path.

Note to self- beetles dive-bombing your hair is a feeling you won't soon forget.
(more full-body cringing)

Now who's going to come throw this thing out and replace it with another bag????
That's what I'd like to know.