Re: [AlpacaTalk] Hope someone can give me some answers regarding grubs

 

While there are biological controls that can be applied to the pastures, it will be quite costly if you have a fair amount of land.   (BT or bacillus thurogenensis) (sp?) This is the same bacteria found in mosquito dunks. I think finding them and digging them out will be quite an undertaking as well. I would suggest that you simply allow the grubs to mature into beetle and that you set up the Japanese Beetle traps.  The attractant in the traps will attract all of the beetles, not just the Japanese beetles. You will never eliminate all of them, but you can reduce the numbers. We have used beetle traps for the last 3 years and we have noticed a marked decrease in beetles and grubs.

Roger and Dede Crout
Dragonfly Alpacas, LLC
Marydel, MD
Www,dragonflyalpacas.com
410-482-7794

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From: Deborah Russell <russhill2002@yahoo.com>
To: "AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com" <AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Mar 25, 2012 20:08:16 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Hope someone can give me some answers regarding grubs

 

The best and safest thing to do with the grubs is dig them out and either feed them to some chickens or just smash them.  They will morph into beetles and that will be in the near future.  So if you do nothing they will just morph into beetles.  Personally I would not worry about them.  I do have chickens and when I find some of the large June bug grubs I give the chickens a treat.  

I would not use a pesticide at all.  

 

Debbie Hill Russell
Fredericksburg, TX
Russell Hill Ranch
russhill@beecreek.net
http://russellhillranch.blogspot.com/

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From: jennymt1402002 <jennymt1402002@yahoo.com>
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 2:55 PM
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Hope someone can give me some answers regarding grubs

We were out in the pasture and noticed when we dug up some dirt that he had huge grubs in the dirt. We then went to our poop pile that we had been composting and was digging in it and rotating the dirt and it is infested with grubs.

Does anyone have any idea on what we could use to get rid of the grubs without hurting our alpacas. We can keep them penned up while cleaned up the corral and then put them in the corral when we took care of their paddocks. Just need some idea on what we could use to get rid them without harm to alpacas.

Hope someone has some idea.

Thanks in advance

Carla
Country Home Alpacas
Mcpherson Kanas



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