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Garden State Pumpkins, little egg harbor

looks like japenese beetle larva to me...grubex or merit application...good luck GrowEmBig!...not the bugs!

4/14/2005 7:01:41 AM

Garden

Really?? I was thinking grubs or cutworms.
Thank you for the reply!

4/14/2005 2:02:41 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Thats what a grub is. It is a larvae form of a beetle. Those are not cut worms. A cutworm looks like grey, black, or green caterpillars that live in the soil.

4/14/2005 2:13:29 PM

Garden

Okay then. I'll be looking for the mentioned products tonight. Thanks for the help guys

4/14/2005 2:31:27 PM

Montoursville, PA

Dad gum they are stirring about early this year. I saw them in one of my newbe patch just a munching away. I called them Jap Beetle larva.

I have none in my patch because I use Milky Spore Disease which works fine and stays in the patch year to year to catch the results of fly-in's. It will stay active as long as white grubs are present. When the grub dies it makes more and new disease spore for more grubs next year.

A tad expensive on application but far better and less expensive than Grub X which has, to be applied yearly. My first application held up for twelve to fifteen years. I am now into another twelve to fifteen years and it is still working fine.

Milky Spore Disease is organic and selective to only white grubs. One of the great non-posion methods that really works even better. It has been proven for about fifty years.

4/15/2005 7:46:04 AM