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My firearm related solution (since this is a gun forum) is to pepper the lawn from a 2nd floor window with #4 shot from a 12ga. If applied evenly, this should execute any grubs in your soil. If any survive, reapply with #2 shot for more penetration.
Brilliant!You'll contaminate the soil with lead doing that. I just load my shells with the grub granules and shoot it in. This way I get good penetration of the poison before I water it in.
Brilliant!
If someone would make Airsoft BBs out of weed-n-feed I'd let my son do all the shooting he wants. (His "biodegradable" BBs still litter my lawn years latet.)
So...speaking of thatching and aeration, anyone have advice on tools/rollers/etc.? I’m on an acre, so I can just walk around on spikes, but I don’t know if it’s effective. Thanks in advance.
Biological Control - There are a number of predators and parasitoids that attack white grubs, but unfortunately their effectiveness for control is unknown. There are also two biological control agents that are available: milky spore and parasitic nematodes. The biological agent that causes milky spore disease only controls the Japanese beetle. Be warned that research findings indicate that the milky spore bacterium is not effective in northern New England because spring soils are too cold. The parasitic nematode can suppress white grub populations, but requires moist soil conditions and also has shown minimum survival in New Hampshire soils because of the extreme temperature fluctuations.
Think you are probably OK based on new lawn and what they did. Don’t think you could have enough thatch to worry about. Would put down some nitrogen fertilizer in a couple weeks and some prodamine in early November and next spring to keep weeds from propagating.
Thanks so much for your guidance. Any specific NPK ratio or specific product you’d recommend?
That should work. It’s active ingredient is DyloxI put some of this down tonight.. Supposed to rain later which will soak it in. Supposedly will kill these things within 24 hrs. I'll report back on Wednesday.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/BAYER-ADVA...-10-lb-Ready-to-Use-Insect-Killer-Bag/3353712
I put some of this down tonight.. Supposed to rain later which will soak it in. Supposedly will kill these things within 24 hrs. I'll report back on Wednesday.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/BAYER-ADVA...-10-lb-Ready-to-Use-Insect-Killer-Bag/3353712
This is all they have at Lowe’s today and I have a two hour window to apply. Was hoping for Dylox but I have to put something down before the rain. Ugh
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Products that will NOT kill grubs
- Spectracide Triazicide Insect Killer for Lawns - Granular
gamma-cyhalothrin 0.05%
This product will not kill grubs at any rate. This product was tested by MSU for grub control in 2006 and gave identical results as the untreated plots.
hey.. did you read this... How to choose and when to apply grub control products for your lawn
hopefully you didn't open it yet and can return it... where you located in SEMA exactly?
Thanks. Too late now. Was at the Lowe's in Plainville looking for the grub stuff you posted above, they didn't have any. Time was extremely limited so bought the one I thought (but wasn't sure) would work and threw it down quick. Thankfully it wasn't expensive.
Well, that explains a lot. But it does seem to do a good job on ticks. After doing my lawn with it I take my hand crank spreader and do the first 10' - 20' of woods around my house. Only time I've picked up ticks doing yard work is when I forgot to do that.hey.. did you read this... How to choose and when to apply grub control products for your lawn
hopefully you didn't open it yet and can return it... where you located in SEMA exactly?
Those are definitely skunk. I’ve been trying for weeks to catch my vandal! Finally observed him the other night coming out from under my front stairs. Grub X-Ed the sh** out of my lawn the other day, and that skunk gave up the ghost yesterday!! Problem solved.... for this year anyways, lolThere were several of these upper deckers on my lawn. Anyone know what critter? Skunk? Racoon? Possum? Thanks.
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