Milky spore
Is it safe to use on my vegetable plants? I've got a real problem with these grubs eating my plants.
- rainbowgardener
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Not sure I'm understanding your question/ situation. Grubs live in the soil and eat roots. They are more often in lawns than veggie gardens, but certainly can be present in the vegetable garden. They are the C-shaped, fat white larvae of Japanese beetles or other scarab beetles.
This time of year for most of us, the grubs have turned into adult beetles and what we are seeing are adults. The adult Japanese beetles certainly can wreck havoc on vegetable gardens or anything else you are growing.
If by "eating my plants," you mean leaf damage, that is probably adult beetles or slugs or snails (or some other things). If you mean killing the plants by eating the roots, that could be grubs or some kinds of nematodes.
Since milky spore is used against grubs in the soil, it is applied to the soil not to plants. It is a disease that affects only grubs so is harmless to veggies.
This time of year for most of us, the grubs have turned into adult beetles and what we are seeing are adults. The adult Japanese beetles certainly can wreck havoc on vegetable gardens or anything else you are growing.
If by "eating my plants," you mean leaf damage, that is probably adult beetles or slugs or snails (or some other things). If you mean killing the plants by eating the roots, that could be grubs or some kinds of nematodes.
Since milky spore is used against grubs in the soil, it is applied to the soil not to plants. It is a disease that affects only grubs so is harmless to veggies.
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Grubs are the larvae of several types of beetles and, I believe, live their lives underground until they become adult beetles. What you're seeing on your plants are probably some type of worm, caterpillar, or other larva. Milky spore is a soil-borne organism that will kill grubs in the ground only. If you can get some pictures of your visitors, it would help to decide if they are friend or foe.
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