Right now, while you’re comfortably in your cozy home, grubs are fast asleep beneath the surface of your lawn. Soon, with spring’s warmer temperatures, the grubs will wake up and begin eating your grass. They eat the grass from underneath, damaging the roots and causing dead patches of grass to appear on the lawn.
After they’ve had enough to eat, grubs will transform into their next stage, which is known as pupae. Pupae over the course of the summer will mature into adult beetles, which emerge from the soil to eat your plants and lay more eggs in the ground which will develop into more grubs.
Types of beetles that emerge from grubs in your lawn can include June bugs, Chafer Beetles, and Japanese Beetles. If you’re a flower or vegetable gardener, you know the damage Japanese Beetles can do to your carefully tended crops.
How can You Get Grubs Out of the Yard?
The problem with grubs is that they’re hiding out underground where you can not see them to remove them. It’s impossible to identify and dig out every grub in the yard. If you’re lucky enough to have a flock of European Starlings in your neighborhood, they’ll do a good job eating as many grubs as they can capture, but that’s still not a complete solution.
To totally eliminate grubs from your yard, contact your local lawn service. Grub control is achieved using pet and family friendly products which means you’ll be able to enjoy your lawn without worry. In this part of Massachusetts, grub control treatment generally has to happen once or twice a year. It’s important to understand that most beetles have a two to three year cycle encompassing egg, grub, pupae, adult beetle. Repeated treatments are necessary to disrupt this pattern and get the grubs out of your grass.
