CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Pastor Dave]

Sometimes a chicken will eat a Japanese Beetle. They are a big PITA. They can defoliate plants in no time. If you happen to see this

In the dirt, give THAT to your chickens, they will definitely eat the dang grubs.

I didn't realize these were larvae for Japanese Beetles, but we have tons of those too. They were always good for fishin', but now we have tons of mole holes. Always heard if you get rid of grubs, get rid of moles.

 

[Mike CHS]

One thing I learned about Japanese Beetles is one of their favorite things to eat is Crepe Myrtle leaves. I used a systemic pesticide drenched on the ground around the tree trunk and my beetles were pretty much history within a few days of showing up. Roses work the same way and of course I have never heard of an organic systemic if that's important.

 

[CntryBoy777]

When I was vrowing up we called them doodle bugs and would pull them from their hole, and then go fishing....something else that is good is wasp larva...ya can hook em right out of the cell....after ya get the nest down without chemicals....the bream will tear either of them up...

 

[Bruce]

Always heard if you get rid of grubs, get rid of moles.

Skunks too. I've not gotten around to using it but "Bacillus thuringiensis" (Bt) is a good and safe way to rid the ground of grubs. It is organic.

 

[Baymule]

Those grubs can be the larva of June bugs too. Really huge ones are the larva of Rhinoceros Beetles and they are beneficial insects.

 

[Bruce]

No Rhino beetles here but point taken, not every grub is the beginning of a bad insect in the garden.

 

[greybeard]

When I had burn piles waiting for me to rake thru them and set them afire a 2nd time, it was a couple years for some of them before I spread the remains. They were full of the very large grubs, thumb sized and larger. Cow birds and crows took care of them. The fish wouldn't bite on the big ones but often did the common grub worm.

Doodlebugs I think we have discussed here before. This is not a doodle bug, tho most of us called them by that name, sow bug, pillbug or by 'rolypoly'.

This, the larvae stage of a flying insect, lives at the bottom of a small cone shaped hole, is correctly called an ant lion or doodlebug:

More antlion/doodlebug pics, as well as the adult form with wings:
http://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/pljuly97.htm

 

[CntryBoy777]

I never saw an ant lion until we lived in Florida...they are neat little things....they don't fair too well in the soil we have here. We never called a sow bug a doodle bug...it was known as a roly-poly....

 

[Pastor Dave]

We played with something Dad called Sow Bugs that were segmented and would walk on your hand or arm, but if scared, rolled up like a ball. Our redneck version of jacks. See how many would roll up before any started walking around again.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sounds like a millipede to me....they have a very distinct smell to them....