What does grubs look like?
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Typical lawn grubs, often called white grubs, are white, C-shaped beetle larvae about a half-inch in length. A grub may be the larvae of the masked chafer, European chafer (pictured), Japanese beetle or other beetle species. Lawn grubs have soft bodies with legs near the head.
Similarly, you may ask, how do I know if I have grubs?
To check, lift a piece of your turf. If Grubs are the culprit, the dead patch will roll up like a carpet, or you'll be able to pull up the grass and see that it has no roots. Irregularly-shaped dead patches appear in your well-irrigated lawn in late summer or early fall.
Similarly one may ask, how do you get rid of lawn grubs?
Steps
- Look for signs of grubs.
- Check for grubs.
- Decide if you need to treat.
- Use beneficial nematodes to get rid of any type of grub.
- Use spores for Japanese beetle grubs.
- Seed and fertilize your lawn in the fall.
- Let your lawn grow long.
- Don't overwater.
A classic lawn grub or white grub is a whitish C-shaped larva of a beetle (such as June beetles) that are about ½ inch in length. Eventually grubs turn into adult beetles and come out of the soil to mate and lay eggs which hatch into more grubs.