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Cockchafer grubs
The Man From Utopia
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Does anyone know of a way to prevent cockchafer grubs maturing that doesn't involve nematodes?
The only thing I've found so far is rolling the lawn, which doesn't work for me for too many reasons to go into.
I've also noticed that a bug I put on a pile of gravel in early afternoon was no longer there this evening - any guesses on whether it managed to get off the gravel, or whether it got eaten? I've got cats, so I'm assuming a bird didn't get it?
The reason I ask this last bit is that at the moment I'm basically leaving the grubs in the sun and assuming that they'll peg out.
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I'm pretty sure that a hungry blackbird will have snaffled your grub when a cat wasn't looking.
Nematodes is what works the best to get rid of them properly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fascinating. I wonder if the grubs taste like shrimp? I gave some cockchafer and vine weevil grubs to the local birds. Put them in a bird feeder tray and they soon go. The robin loves them.
Thanks all.
Legal costs being what they are, I will have to refrain from putting them on trial...leaving them out for the birds and assuming the cats won't disrupt the plan seems the best.
Dovefromabove...I am digging them up, but not on purpose...there just happen to be quite a few of them turn up when I've been digging recently!