PREVENTING AND ELIMINATING GRUBS FROM DESTROYING YOUR YARD


THE SYMPTOMS OF A GRUB-DAMAGED LAWN:

Severe grub damage in a lawn appears as large, irregular sections of brown turf that detach from the soil without effort.  Unlike turf damaged by drought or excessive fertilizer, the turf peels away like a carpet being rolled up.  Grubs feed on grass roots in your lawn and are usually noticed only when dead and damaged areas appear.

THE ROOT OF IT ALL:

Grubs not only feed on the roots of your grass but they can be the very root of many of the problems people experience with their lawns and gardens.  Having a high number of grubs attracts skunks which feed on grubs by digging holes in your lawn thus causing further damage to it.  Grubs are also the immature (larval) from of a scarab beetle, such as the European chafer or the Japanese beetle.  So once mature, these grubs can create more problems for your vegetation above ground by eating at the leaves of many plants and flowers, although not all beetles do this.



Question: When should I use a grub killer?
Answer: The best times of year to kill grubs is in the spring or fall.  In the spring, although much of the damage the grubs has done to your grass has already been done, you can prevent them from becoming beetles and attacking your plants and from being able to produce more grubs in the late summer when they reproduce.  In the fall, you can prevent the grubs from doing damage by killing them before they can eat your grass roots again thus providing you with a healthy lawn the following spring.