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Japanese Beetles on Green Bean Plants?

Any ways to get rid of the mass of Japanese beetles on my green bean plants?? I don't use pesticides but these guys are mating everywhere in the garden *sigh* The leaves are covered though my beans are ok - at the moment

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1. You can get a large bowl and fill it with soapy water and just hold it under the leaves and flick the leaves so the beetles will fall in. Their first reaction is to fall downward so they are easy to catch this way. They can't get out of the soapy water.
2. Sorry, but pesticides is the only way to kill these things. DO NOT use the beattle traps, they just attract more from your neighbor's yards.