pesticde free way of ridding fruit trees of Japanese beetles ?

 Is there a pesticide free way of ridding fruit trees of Japanese
beetles ?

Thank you

Ed

 

 Look about for Japanese beetle traps.  Then again you may make your
own.  They like yellow.  Growing up hand picking with a small jar of
kerosene  was the method of choice.  I think "milky spore" is the way to
go now.   We were always more interested in lighting bugs ;))

Bill

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 no need to use kerosene............soapy water does the trick!  just
drop 'em in and toss away.

William Wagner wrote:
   Growing up hand picking with a small jar of

 William Wagner wrote:

Go with milky spore.  Apparently, it's driven the Japanese beetles
in my area to near extinction.

 I don't know what a Japanese beetle is but, as it happens, this post about 4
o'clocks and Japanese beetles was posted about a half hour before yours, by
Starlord.