The Chafer Grub is a lawn lover’s nightmare because they can easily turn your pride and joy from a luscious green to a bald dirt patch in no time.
The grown-up Chafer isn’t much of a problem. It’s the Chafer Grubs you have to watch. Female Chafers lay eggs in the soil of your lawn and the moment these pesky grubs hatch, they start feasting on your lawn’s roots.
Now, the grubs are a nuisance for obvious reasons but just wait until they become fully-grown larvae – they’re massive, and much bigger than their parents! They’ll lie in the soil chomping away through the cold months until, in the spring, your lawn will be bald.
Don’t worry though. Nature has a solution. They’re called Heterorhabditis Megidis Nematodes.
As with all of the pest controls we offer here, these nematodes are harmless to everything – apart from the Chafer grub.
You just mix them with water and apply it with a watering can during late summer and autumn. It is best to do it on a no- sunny day so it will not dry out straight away.
Then these tiny little creatures will get straight to work. It’s actually the insect-pathogenic bacteria Photorhabdus which sorts out the Chafers but these nematodes are in a symbiotic relationship with this bacteria.
As always, there will be full instructions with the packet – including asking you to refrigerate until you are ready.
To cover around 110 square yards (100 sq. metres)
