white grub
noun
: a grub that is a destructive pest of grass roots and is the larva of various beetles and especially june bugs
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Much of the stag beetle's lifecycle is spent underground as a white grub molting into larger and larger forms before hatching in two to three years during the summer.
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Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
The second is the Puerto Rican crested toad, or sapo concho, which has been endangered by the destruction of its habitat and the presence of the cane toad, brought to the island in the 1920s to control white grubs feasting on sugar cane.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Many other turf-destroying grubs, such as Japanese beetles and chafers, also are large white grubs.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2024
Beneficial nematodes can be applied to a lawn where white grubs feed, which will infect them with deadly parasites.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
There is no one fix-all/kill-all application for adult beetles and their larvae/white grub offspring.
—Betty Cahill, The Know, 23 June 2020
Keeping lawns on the drier side during peak egg-laying months (July-August) will reduce eggs from growing to the next larvae/white grub stage.
—Betty Cahill, The Know, 23 June 2020
There are insecticides labeled for control of white grubs in turf.
—Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2019
The browning grass looks like damage of white grub worms.
—Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
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Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
The second is the Puerto Rican crested toad, or sapo concho, which has been endangered by the destruction of its habitat and the presence of the cane toad, brought to the island in the 1920s to control white grubs feasting on sugar cane.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Many other turf-destroying grubs, such as Japanese beetles and chafers, also are large white grubs.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2024
Beneficial nematodes can be applied to a lawn where white grubs feed, which will infect them with deadly parasites.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
There is no one fix-all/kill-all application for adult beetles and their larvae/white grub offspring.
—Betty Cahill, The Know, 23 June 2020
Keeping lawns on the drier side during peak egg-laying months (July-August) will reduce eggs from growing to the next larvae/white grub stage.
—Betty Cahill, The Know, 23 June 2020
There are insecticides labeled for control of white grubs in turf.
—Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2019
The browning grass looks like damage of white grub worms.
—Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
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“White grub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20grub. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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