Article: Healthy plants mean fewer Japanese beetles: Hartselle expert offers tips to protect gardens.

Byline: Bayne Hughes

Jun. 21--Are Japanese beetles attacking your plants? A Hartselle man says their radar tells them which plants are healthy and then the insects attack the ones that are not.

Kevin Bryant of Turf Doctor Inc. said keeping the bugs away from your roses, bushes and other plants is more complex than spraying bug-killing chemicals. He said Japanese beetles and other bugs can't eat and digest complete proteins, so they stay away from healthy plants.

"It's nature's way of taking out distressed plants that aren't fit for higher life forms to eat," Bryant said.

On Monday, Bryant was at Delano Park's rose garden working with ...

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