Minnesota’s first sighting of an invasive European chafer beetle was recently reported by a South Minneapolis resident after noticing large swarms of beetles in the homeowner’s yard.

A grub is the soft. wriggly and wormlike larva of a beetle. They measure about a 1/2-inch long, ... A grub may be the larvae of the masked chafer or European chafer, Japanese beetle, ...

European chafer makes its mark. Pesky beetle dines on lush local lawns. ... Chafer larvae are serious pests that feed on corn, potatoes, strawberries, conifers and nursery plants, as well as lawn, ...

Here’s a guide to the European chafer beetle’s year-round activity and what action you can take. ... mostly crows, tear up turf to find the white larvae. Action: No control of chafer at this time.

The grubs are the larvae of the European chafer, a nonnative scarab beetle first spotted in Washington state in 2008.By 2016, the chafer had taken up permanent residence near Seattle-Tacoma ...

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Older larvae may be from ¼ to 1½ inches in length. Besides affecting lawns, they can also be a pest of other horticultural and agricultural crops. Scarab beetles that produce white grubs include the ...

The lawn-eating European chafer beetle grub did not die over the winter as some Fredericton city officials would have hoped. Don Murray, city forester of the parks and trees division, said the ...

The Vancouver Park Board is deploying a tiny defender in its battle against the invasive European chafer beetle. It's treating 31 sports fields with nematodes — a microscopic roundworm that ...