Beetle Trap Uses Plastic Bags

Beetle Trap Uses Plastic Bags CROPS Insect Control 32-4-10 Frank Miller got tired of replacing the bags on his commercial Japanese beetle trap. So he replaced the original catching pouch with a bracket that lets him use leftover plastic shopping bags. "The traps definitely reduce the damage beetles were causing to my garden vegetables and fruit trees. However, the bags cost about $2 apiece," says Miller. He attached a piece of pipe to the bottom of the pipe and uses tape to attach a new bag each day. Miller says he gets about a bagful of bugs per day at each of several locations. He burns the bags of dead bugs. The trap is equipped with a number of plastic vanes at the top onto which bait is applied. A cone leads from the vanes down into the bag. He hangs the traps from T-posts using a bracket made from a pipe and steel rod. "I run the duct tape around the top part of the bag but don't get it onto the pipe. That way when I go to remove the bag it just slides right off," says Miller. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Frank Miller, 1900 E. North, Beecher City, Ill. 62414 (ph 618 487-5429).

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