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===== White grubs =====

{{ :garden:cultivate:pests:img_0269dw.jpg?250|White grubs}}These critters knaw on just about any root crop from potatoes to beets to carrots. I dug out more than 150 in cultivating my garden during the Summer of 2013 in Fall City and prepared brunch for the crows a number of times. (The crow scout still stops by occasionally when I'm working there just to see if I found more.)

In the Fall of 2013 I treated the area with milky spore granules, which initiate some sort of action in the soil that kills these. Still I have found a dozen or so this year and I'm hoping my potatoes are untouched.

<note>I didn't find any grubs in harvesting potatoes, but I did find a couple of potatoes that appeared to be devoured by grubs. At least there's some progress.</note>

The white grubs are one stage in the life cycle of some beetle, but I'm told these aren't related to the Japanese beetle.