By
eHow Home & Garden Editor
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- Yellow container
- Dish soap
- Beetle traps containing pheromone lures
- Milky spore
- Catnip, chives, garlic or tansy
Step1
Remove any trees or plants that are unhealthy or dead. Beetles love to feed on these.
Step2
Remove any ripened fruit from your trees. Pick up and throw away any fruit that may have fallen to the ground.
Step3
Set up beetle traps containing pheromone lures between the months of June and August. Place these in the sun and away from gardens.
Step4
Fill up a yellow container full of water. Add 2 drops of soap to the water. Beetles are attracted to this.
Step5
Apply milky spore, a bacterium, to the yard. This will help kill the beetles and potential beetles. Or place catnip, chives, garlic or tansy around the yard to repel beetles.
Step6
Shake plants that attract beetles early in the morning.
Step7
Apply insecticides if desired. This needs to be reapplied after rainfall. Spray insecticides need to be reapplied frequently.