[FLPERMACULTURE] Grubs

[Pat Meadows]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:44:10 -0500, you wrote:

>I don't know one grub from another, but June bugs are much larger 
>than Japanese beetles, so I'll bet there's a relevant size difference 
>in the larvae also. However I don't think they're nearly as 
>destructive as Japanese beetles.  Skunks and starlings love eating 
>grubs, so I usually let them feast on my lawn!
>

I believe, however, that they are not good in a vegetable garden.  

I think these grubs are the 'cut worms' that encircle young veggie
seedlings and cut them off, to eat them, thus destroying them.  

If I see any in my vegetable garden, I either move them or squish them.
(Depending on how respectful of life I'm feeling that day.)  

Japanese beetles eat my basil... so they're not my favorite creature.

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania
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