I just got done with a my grow Cool Season Crops class today and someone postulate about those white grubs in the soil when they were turning it over . So I dug out this post I wrote in 2012 about what are those clean grub in the soil . I told the class I would put pictures up of the grubs and cutworm so you could be intimate how to ID each of them . One is harmless and the other can be a real problem . Read on .
This time of class when you are adding amendments and turning your soil , you may acknowledge some white fat grubs with dark-brown mind . I noticed they were in land that I heavily amended with horse manure and would freak out when I saw them . I took all of them ( sometimes a lot ) and give them to the chickens . I use to think were cutworms but they are not .
They are Scarab beetle larvae and will NOT harm your veg works or vegetable roots . They are also known as the ‘ muck beetle ’ larvae . In fact they are beneficial because they help relegate down the manure by rust it , hence you will find them where you expend manure . Just impart them alone as they are kind of like louse , sum up nutrients to the soil as they process the manure . I have never seen any harm to vegetables but if they are in your lawn ( what lawn ? ! LOL ) they will eat grass - etymon ( but not veg roots ) .
cutworms
cutworm
On the other hand , here is a picture of cutworm which are HARMFUL to your plants . They come out of the ground at night and chew the base of your transplant stem off leave you with a decapitated plant ( so to speak ) . They attack baby plant stems because they are tippy . After the plants get elderly , they do n’t bother them . If you see these , get rid of them . I look for them in the soil around the hole I dig just before I put my transplants in the ground . But there is something else you’re able to do to protect your plants .
you’re able to protect your plant by putting a ‘ cutworm dog collar ’ around your new planted transplant . I utilise a paper towel roll or toilet paper row hack into 2 inch increments . I cut back the tube lengthwise to get them around the plant life prow and videotape the cut seam .
cutworms
Then I sink the vacuum tube about 1 inch into the grime . They wo n’t crawl up the tube . After your plants get a lilliputian sure-enough , take the thermionic tube off - they only like young root word . In this flick the collar is fill up with dirt but I just leave the neckband on without filling it with dirt .
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