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Brilliant! Not being familiar w/ these traps. Is there any toxic substances involved? JAThe Japanese Beetle has wreaked havoc on my garden and fruit trees for the past couple of years. I tried the sprays, dusts, you name it to no avail. This year I started using the pheromone bait traps. The collection bag fills up within an hour. Those bags are rather expensive so I just empty the contents into a Ziplock bag and rehang it. Even though the trap was hanging about 6 feet up, I noticed the chickens congregating underneath snatching up the beetles that dropped to the ground. I lowered all the traps to chicken height- now they're grabbing em out the air, off the trap, and off the ground. The beetles in the baggie don't go to waste either. With so many beetles packed into the baggie, it doesn't take long for them to suffocate. Just unzip the bag and pour em onto the ground and the chickens come a running. Pest control and chicken feed at the same time.