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White curl grub, scarab beetle larvae, lawn beetle larvae or cockchafer are the correct common names for the juvenile stage of lawn beetle. However, white curl grub is sometimes incorrectly referred to as 'lawn grub' and 'witchety grub'. 'Lawn grub' is a colloquial term for surface-dwelling caterpillars such as sod webworm, army worm and cutworm, which become moths. The true witchety grub is the wood-feeding larva of two families of giant Australian moth.
Dug up in a mulch pile - have also seen the adult black beetles as well. They are a serious lawn pest!
Spotted on Jul 13, 2012
Submitted on Jul 13, 2012
2 Comments
Yugh! That's gross
Those are grubs they are larva for a type of beetle. Here in Michigan we commonly have June bugs that come from these guys. They are bad for your plants they eat roots. I would kill them all right away.