Grubs In Garden Soil
Great video on all types of insects that damage lawns.
Grubs in garden soil. This means that aerating your lawn during these times can injure or kill grubs living near the surface of the soil. First of all, what are “grubs”? These grubs are attracted to any moist soil.
Grubs live in the top few inches of soil in late summer and fall and return to the top few inches of soil to enter the pupal stage in spring. The presence of grubs is a natural part of the soil biome. You can use beneficial nematodes to kill grubs in garden soil and lawns alike.
You are never going to have a perfectly grub free turf or garden. White grubs are common in places where it is sunny. Beetles emerge in early summer, feed on plants in your garden, then lay eggs in the soil in your lawn.
They come on a sponge (invisible to naked eye) that you soak in water, put in a sprayer and spray your dirt or lawn. Unlike earthworms that fertilize your soil to make your plants and flowers healthy, grub worms ruin them by munching on the roots of your plants, flowers, and grass in your lawn or garden. Lawn and garden grubs are juvenile scarab beetles, says dan bailey, president of wikilawn.
They exist as dormant eggs through the cold winter months, and then hatch in the spring to burrow around and eat the roots of your plants. Identifying white grub’s damage plants affected. They have nematodes that seek and destroy flea larvae too.
They dwell on the soil, which is why they commonly affect turfgrass. During this time the garden and lawn grubs are much smaller and a lot easier to kill and control. White grubs are most often found just below the surface of a lawn or garden where they live in the soil.