Stop the Skeletonizing! The Brutally Honest Secret to Killing Japanese Beetles Without Chemicals

Hand-picking Japanese beetles into a bucket of soapy water.

I walked out to my rose garden last July and almost had a stroke. Those metallic green jerks—Japanese beetles—had turned my prize-winning petals into something resembling a piece of Swiss cheese. It’s January 28, 2026, and while the ground is currently frozen solid in most of the US and Canada, I’m already losing sleep over … Read more