Beetle Grubs In Soil

These are grubs from one of the beetles such as the Japanese beetle or garden beetle. Although they eat roots, there are always some amount of grubs in a garden and plants aren’t severely effected unless the population is huge or the plants’ root systems are reduced because of drought or improper irrigation. Many extension services use the following guidelines for treating grubs in a lawn: you dig a piece of the turf one foot by one foot and roll up the grass, counting the grubs that are reveled when you do so. If there are more than 10 grubs per square foot you would want to treat with grub killing product used according to the directions. Most gardeners don’t worry about grubs, and just toss them into the road or onto the bird feeder when they are reveled when we dig. There are many animals that eat grubs including birds, skunks and moles, so Mother Nature often brings things into balance that way.