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These traps have two kinds of lures. They have the scent of a female beetle, which lures in unsuspecting males. The other lure smells sweet like food, which brings in male and female beetles.

It is possible to purchase bait and create your own trap. Here is a tutorial if you're interested.

-- Contributed by: Kathleen Roberts

Your article mentioned bait traps. What is in the trap to attract them?

-- Contributed by: Ron

Thanks for sharing the information Ken!

-- Contributed by: Charlotte Gerber

We tried it on all our beetle infested plants. It worked very well on all-roses, sunflowers, climbing hydrangea, ornamental grasses, perennials too numerous to name, lets just say it really worked out. We had previously used flour on our cabbages to get the worms and by chance tried powder for the beetles. Came to this site to see if anyone else tried powder. Suggest this is better than the bag traps which gardeners know attract more then they catch.

-- Contributed by: Ken
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