This is a good tip, and will work for many other pests in your vegie garden. Don’t know about you but before I started my vegie garden there wasn’t a pest in sight, they were all lurking over the fence I think. Hope this tip helps you out too. I found it here

Japanese beetles on beans

Q: Japanese beetles are eating my climbing green-bean vines. What would you suggest I use to get rid of them?

A: If you have time and patience, pick them off and smash them or drop them in a can of soapy water.

An organic-spray option is to treat the plants with neem oil or with the new VeggiePharm, which has a variety of mint oils that beetles don’t like. Garden centers should have one or both, and they’re both labeled for use on edibles.

A third option is temporarily covering the plants with floating row cover. These light-weight blankets let air and sun through but exclude flying bugs like Japanese beetles. Smack the plants around a little before draping on the row covers to make sure the plants are beetle-free. The cover won’t do much good if you’ve trapped feasting beetles inside. A few garden centers sell these, and they’re also available through a variety of garden-supply catalogs (www.gardeners.com, www.gardensalive.com, www.planetnatural.com) and even some seed catalogs

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