HELP! Japanese Beetles are eating my roses!

[The Flower Lady]

Need some advice. I hear differing opinions on beetle traps. I have dusted with sevin dust. Is there anything else I can try?

 

[Elmore]

Here is a good link. I prefer Orthene (acephate) when applicable.

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/trees/ef409.htm

 

[Rtom45]

If you are going to use traps, put them as far away from your roses as possible. The traps work by drawing the beetles to them, sometimes from amazing distances. The risk of course, is that you'll draw beetles that may have never found your roses.

 

[elmnut]

give the pheremone traps to your neighbor as a gift, it will help take the pressure of your roses.