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From: wcb@sortac.UUCP (Bill Barksdale)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,misc.consumers.house,rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Bug zappers
Message-ID: <258@sortac.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 20:57:43 GMT
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In article <3122@ut-emx.UUCP> osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:
>[deleted stuff about bug zappers]
>
>Down here in Austin, front and back porches, if lit, get *inundated* with
>June bugs. Jillions of them. Since it's the June bug's larvae that becomes
>the notorious, lawn-destroying grubworm (little white maggot-looking bugger),
>a bug zapper might help to keep them down a bit. Lately, I haven't been able
>to sit on my back porch due to mass kamikaze attacks. 
>---	

Are you sure those are not Japanese beetles? June bugs don't make
kamikaze attacks! Also June bugs tend to hang out in barnyards
and pastures . . . Oh yeah, Austin, huh . . .

Anyway, I've never heard of June bug larvae being a threat to lawn
grasses, but Japanese beetle larvae supposedly tend to destroy
your lawn.

The two are similar in appearence - I think Japanese beetles
are a little smaller. June bugs make fair pets, with a thread
tied around one leg - I never tried this with a kamikaze
Japanese beetle.

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Bill Barksdale        AT&T Network Systems            Atlanta, GA