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Sep 18, 2014 9:36 AM CST
Name: Annie
Waynesboro, PA (Zone 6a)
Cat Lover Region: Pennsylvania Keeper of Poultry
If it's at all possible, get yourself some chickens (banties are miniatures that are a good choice for suburban homes) and let them free range as much as possible (or keep them in a movable pen). I used to have a terrible problem with Japanese beetles until we got hens....now the beetles are a rare sight. The same seems to apply to stink bugs. A few years ago, they were terrible until the hens got a taste for them. Now, only a few.

The chickens don't actually dig up the grubs (they're usually too deeply buried), but they seem to have an uncanny knack for knowing exactly when the grubs emerge as adults.
I am not "country" I am "landed gentry."

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