Japanese Beetles and Those Little "Grubs"

I want to talk today about the little Japanese Beetle. Those damndable little pests have all but ruined my yard! I won’t go into all the details about the grubs, you can read read all about them here.



Last fall we noticed our front yard grass turning brown and dying. I thought it was because of all the rain we had. Then we found them! All we had to do was take the heel of our shoe and scrape against the sod. Well, there was no sod. All the dirt just “peeled” up and after going down about 3-4 inches---there they were. The little white buggers that were eating the roots of my grass to stay alive and emerge this summer into the ugliest, pestiest beetle ya ever saw!



After doing consider research and making many phone calls, I decided I couldn’t afford a yard man, I couldn’t afford the expensive stuff they sell at the co-op, so I settled on Bayer. Yep, just like the asprin! I even called our local extension office and they recommended this product even before I asked. They explained that it has some new ingredients in it that work extremely well. They further explained that because grubs are now emerging as a really huge problem in many areas of the country, most manufacturers of control products hadn’t kept up with the industry and Bayer had created a product that showed very promising results.

Let me just add, many, many people prefer milky spore. However, the length of time it takes for that to work, which I understand it does very effectively, we could lose our entire 2 acres of yard!

I applied a first round of Bayer Grub Killer Plus. a few weeks ago and just today, applied a second round. I’m gonna get those little buggers if it is the last thing I do!!! (And it may very well be---they are hard to control).

We won’t know the effects of the killer until later this year, but you can be assured I will be applying another round in July and August. Then, I will be applying their Bayer Grub Control this fall.

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I probably won’t be back until Monday. I wish you all a wonderfully pleasant weekend. Kick back, relax---take time to smell the roses!