Japanese Beetles and CrabApple Trees

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Japanese beetles are eating my crabapple saplings. I am afraid these trees won't make it. We are in Minnesota. Have the saplings at top
of slope. Snowdrift crabapples.

Chris Lyons

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Hi Jen,

Did you see this post about using chickens and traps to control Japanese beetles?

https://permies.com/t/36988/chickens/Japanese-Beetle-chicken-feeders

Cj Sloane

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Location: Vermont, off grid for 24 years!

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