Japanese beetle

Okay.

Well, one other thing I wanted to mention was the Japanese beetles did not touch my William Bath and Rose, which is huge.

And it didn't touch my three-year-old, Rosa Sharon, also.

I'm very surprised.

they're gross.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I put two of them up this year, one on either side of my yard, one on the west side, one on the east side, right on the edge, around some plants like a spruce tree or a Russian olive, some junipers, that sort of thing that, you know, the Japanese beetles don't feed on.

So I attracted them to that area.

And I would hand them a box and say, "Hey, I want you to go figure out what's on the, what's on the plants.

See Japanese beetles? I've got these dozen Japanese beetle flies.

See crickets? Then here are some cricket flies.

See hoppers, see chazzids, see inchworms?" And it was phenomenal for people's confidence to quickly build up that identification of the natural world and then the imitation that was in their fly box.

Oh my gosh.

I'm in a battle with the Beatles, the Japanese Beatles, but I'm winning.

So yeah, the

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