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A June Bug???! Great Googledey Moogledey!

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June bugs, and japanese beetles, both produce similar larvae in turf and
garden soils, known sort of loosely as 'white grubs' (there are several
species of June bugs).

If you actually observe that your turf or garden is suffering and feel the
'white grubs' are the cause, there are many things to do before heading for
the evil poison bottle.

Heavy spike aeration of the lawn will kill about 50% of them. You can follow
this up with either Milky Spore (aka Doom), a bacterial disease that will
last up to 20 years  in your soil, killing off the evil 'white grubs'.

A shorter term but faster acting biological control are the insecticidal
nematodes. They can be obtained from several web and mail order sources, and
many garden centers have order forms for them, also.

Spiking before applying the milky spore or nematodes will help them
penetrate into the turf better.

Finally, consider tolerance. Healthy turf can withstand up to ten grubs per
square foot, and if they are not present in your garden in large numbers,
they are unlikely to be a serious problem, perhaps offering something in
exchange for your soil organic matter in the form of aeration activity.

And, they are nifty big beetles! Part of the Greatest Show on Earth....Life!

Frank Teuton
-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Wendt <Katherine@datawizsolutions.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: Pesticides


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>I'm not an organic fanatic, but I thought I'd share this story.
>
>Last week I was digging postholes for a new square foot raised bed and
>found that my clay was infested with hibernating bugs. They look a lot like
>June bugs but I'm not sure. So I put one in a jar and was asking my
>neighbor what he thought it was. He said he didn't really know, that it
>looked like a June bug or maybe a cicada.
>
>"But you know what you should put on it?" he asked. Then he led me to his
>garden shed and pulled out a lawn pesticide/fertilizer and told me I should
>use it.
>
>Neither June bugs or cicadas were mentioned on the label as being critters
>that the pesticide would kill.
>
>So here he doesn't know what kind of bug it is, whether it does any damage
>and so should be killed, and he recommends that I put a chemical on it that
>doesn't even kill the kind of bugs that it might be. Sigh.
>
>So does this sound like a June bug to you? Should I be trying to control
them?
>
>Zone 7a near Washington DC
>
>Katherine Wendt
>DataWiz Solutions
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