A Grubpocalypse is coming! And with the Grubageddon other creatures are about to invade your outdoor space. Moles, mice, rats, birds, armadillos, shrews, gophers, badgers, possums, muskrats and the dreaded, gaseous skunk.  A Pest Control Army’s nightmare!

They feast on these infants. While grubs have a scorched Earth policy, the critters they bring with them will cause a village scrimmage into World War III on your lawn and garden. They have an appetite for the larval stage of the beetle.

Because of the treat that grubs bring to the table, the other beasts will rip apart the soil, causing even greater damage.

How The Conflict Began

As we said, grubs are things that ultimately become beetles. Hard to find as they live underground. But you know you have ’em when you start seeing dead slabs of grass. They nourish themselves on the roots of your lawn, killing the sod.

Not only that, the massacre continues when your garden, those lovely flowers, all types of greenery goes to vegetation heaven.

The Enemy Exposed

There are various types of grubs. However, the largest battalion look like big fat white worms. The individual army members have a slew of legs and a body broken-down into segments. They wear brown, tan or dirty white helmets. When you find one, they’ll generally appear in a crescent shape. Size-wise, you’re in for a surprise. Depending on the part of the country, there are little grubs all the way up to the size of a house.

Just kidding. If you ever see a grub the size of a single-family unit, submit to your new master.

The Allies Have Arrived!

How would you control a platoon of grubs? The best way is to call Vulcan Termite and Pest Control, Inc. We’ve got the big guns and have graduated from the Bug War College. By that we mean, we’ve got the latest strategies and war room expertise to blast these buggers back to the Stone Age.

Want to take care of matters yourself? O.K., soldier. Try taking these steps to prevent and control the enemy. We’ll give you some brand names. Just be aware, these are not tacit endorsements of any particular product. There are many other good brands to take to the battlefield:

• Granule Application.
  One manufactured good is called Merit Granules. It requires an application every 6-months. You’ll need a functional granule spreader so that you set the mini-mines at the optimum rate and as uniformly as possible. All of the important info is right there on the instructions of any granule treatment you choose.
• Liquid Application.
  After you’ve infiltrated the entire area with the granules, get something to spray atop the area in question. Something like Demand CS or Cyonara 9.7 (get it? Cleverly named to rhyme with the Japanese word sayōnara which means “good-bye” …  just a little pesticide humor, troops). You’ll apply it using your garden hose with a spritzer on the tip. The granules work slowly, while a spray immobilizes the opposing army pretty quickly.
• Do it Twice.
  A couple of times a year for two years. That should keep the enemy at bay.

Follow these steps, and you will see peace in your lifetime that the living weapons of mass vegetation destruction can wreak. Our advice is never torture the enemy. Just kill ’em.

Original Source: https://www.vulcantermite.com/garden-pest-control/the-trouble-with-grubs