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Dear Jim, or Joanne, I think I'm missing something. Looking at the
pictures, I see an open half of a half gallon juice carton hanging from a
wire clothes hanger. I get that you put fruit in the bottom for bait, but
what I don't get is what keeps the beetles from flying back out when they're
done feeding on the bait. What is it that kills and/or contains the live
beetles? Is there a top or something that I don't see? Bernie, being dense
in the Inland Empire of Southern California

From: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jim Kennard
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:36 PM
To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Simple Traps for Catching Fig Beetles
(and perhaps others) - PathaJ

Joanne's Long Beach, California Community Garden, with 300 members, solved a
problem perhaps some of you have experienced. Pictures will be in the
Photo's Section in an album called PathaJ:

1. Take an empty half gallon milk or juice carton and cut it in half.
2. Make two slits down opposite sides.
3. Slide a coat hanger into the slits, as shown above.
4. Tape the slits shut so that the hanger won't slide off.
5. Hang your trap on a cage or any other place you choose in your garden.
6. Place a ripe piece of fruit in the bottom of the trap.
7. Stand back because the Fig Beatle loves this trap and will make a
bee line for it and once into it can't get out.

8. Empty trap daily into a plastic bag and secure the bag with a twist tie
or simply knot the bag. There is no need to remove the wire hanger when
emptying the trap. Merely tip it so the beetles fall into your bag.
9. Throw the bag in the dumpster.
10. Re-bait your Fig Beatle trap.

TELL ALL OF YOUR NEIGHBORING GARDEN MEMBERS WHY AND HOW. If we all do this,
we can get ahead of this pest and reduce the damage they
do.

CAUTION: Please protect our birds by not emptying the dead beetles anywhere
except into a plastic bag.

My first day of using this last year netted me an entire trap full of dead
beetles. It was amazing and I continued to get a carton full daily.

Thanks to Mike Battistone for this great trap invention of yours. It works
!!!!!!!

Joanne

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