Grass Grubs.
A Carden Corner.
'THE MATURED BEETLE of these destructive grubs is now very much in evidence. They go into hiding on trees during the daytime, and begin flying about and feeding in the evening. If you are moving about the garden . just before dark you will meet these so-called' Bronze Beetles on the wing, and in disturbing the soil many grubs just turning into winged beetles will be seen. At Home they are called June bugs, from their time of appearance, and carry the name Rhizotrogues solstitialis. Eggs laid by the bugs during the next month or so in the soil will pass the winter there feeding on the roots of plants, and reappear next spring in the flying form. As the bugs feed on the leaves qf trees such as laburnums, and rowans, a crusade of spraying with arsenate of lead now would thin them out very effectively. They are very partial also to the foliage of the common mountain spinach. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 927, 23 November 1933, Page 6
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