White grubs destroying eastern Kansas fields
KANSAS (KSNW) — White grubs are destroying fields in eastern Kansas.
The grubs are beetle larvae.
They feast on grassroots and are killing off brome fields. In some cases, up to 80% of them.
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“Those brome fields are probably stressed out. There’s a lot more beetles than normal, and they just could not keep up with that root damage, and so now we’re seeing patches die off for those reasons, kind of a perfect storm, so to speak,” said Kansas State University Extension Entomologist Anthony Zukoff.
Zukoff says you can use sevin to get rid of the grubs or plant grass in the fall so the root system is more developed in the spring.
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