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RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 468 days ago

Submerge your pots in water to drown them.

RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 468 days ago

Hello Pomolo thankyou for your advice, so there harmful to you plants??
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RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 467 days ago

They are curl grubs, the larva of a beetle. They eat the roots of plants which is a bummer in the garden but they are great in the compost heap.

RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 427 days ago

yes i have had them but i think there is a chemical you can add to get rid of it. they are annoying i must say.
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RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 425 days ago

Don't use a chemical if you can avoid it. Drowning them is safer for us and better for the enviroment.

RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 425 days ago

Pomolo's right about grub poisons; they're really heavy-duty stuff, and not really suited to back-yard use. If there's only a few about, it's not a big worry for established plants that are in good nick.
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RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 418 days ago

Pomolo and Hutcho are right about the ID of the curl grubs. These grubs eat plant roots, and so they are bad news in pots especially, making potted plants very sick. I unpot the plant and then toss all of the grubs on my shed roof as munchies for magpies, etc. Try to avoid poisons if you can (although the one to use, if you have to, is Confidor). But if it's a food plant, I wouldn't use any spray ever.
The beetles which lay the eggs which hatch into the grubs will lay their eggs into any pot, but they're especially likely to do so near outside lights. They're attracted to the lights at night, land on the pot and think "this will do". So if you have a sick potted plant close-ish to an outside light, suspect curl grubs first.
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RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 414 days ago

That's interesting Ozmac. Something I didn't know anything about. Good advice.

RE: Whichty GRUBS!!!

Posted 379 days ago

Thankyou for the Help but these Black Beetles maybe the one's up here in the HunterValley in a Veg Pot just left them and threw grubs out for the Birds (Magpies hey)!!!
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Colleen