If you've had trouble with grubs in your lawn: For most of us right about now, through the end of the month, is the time to put down grub control.

I mention this because a couple members in the last year or two have asked about grub control--usually too late in the season to address it.

Btw: Even if you don't see them or experience the irregular patches of yellowed or brown grass that signals an infestation: If you have a problem with moles, or with skunks digging up your lawn, you probably have a grub problem.

Damn. I was thinking about dinner - and my waist.

What would you suggest for treatment? I've got moles and I asked a local landscaper and he said hard to get rid of them. He recommended deep aeration but I think he was kidding.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
What would you suggest for treatment? I've got moles and I asked a local landscaper and he said hard to get rid of them. He recommended deep aeration but I think he was kidding.

Apply chemical grub death, and you kill what the moles eat, therefore end the mole problem in your yard.

I think I need grub control.

Something is coming out at night and digging dozens and dozens of 1 inch holes in my lawn, some shallow, others 3-4 inches deep

My neighbor says it’s got to be skunks out digging for grubs, all this time I thought it was squirrels but the holes seem to appear overnight.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I think I need grub control.

Something is coming out at night and digging dozens and dozens of 1 inch holes in my lawn, some shallow, others 3-4 inches deep

My neighbor says it’s got to be skunks out digging for grubs, all this time I thought it was squirrels but the holes seem to appear overnight.

I've got both skunks and squirrels they are different holes if you pay attention. No grubs though, skunks still look for them.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
What would you suggest for treatment?

There are several products. I'll be using Scotts GrubEx1.

Be prepared for sticker shock. Grub control is expensive.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
I've got moles and I asked a local landscaper and he said hard to get rid of them.

It is hard to get rid of them. So what you want to do is give them no reason to be there in the first place, by removing what attracts them.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
He recommended deep aeration but I think he was kidding.

LOL! Yeah, I think so. It'd have to be damn deep to get to the moles.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Something is coming out at night and digging dozens and dozens of 1 inch holes in my lawn, some shallow, others 3-4 inches deep

My neighbor says it’s got to be skunks out digging for grubs,

That's what it sounds like to me.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
No grubs though, skunks still look for them.

I respectfully disagree. The skunks wouldn't be digging for them if they weren't there. Skunks don't randomly dig all over the place hoping to find grubs. They dig where they sense grubs.

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Lawn Damage from Raccoons and Skunks: Get Rid of the Grubs!

Just like a dog, raccoons or skunks will walk across a lawn with their nose to the ground. Their sense of smell is very acute and they are able to detect smells that humans cannot. Once they locate some grubs, they will tear up the lawn, pulling back chunks of turf in search of more food.

Full article: Lawn Damage from Raccoons and Skunks: Get Rid of the Grubs!

(I didn't realize raccoons did it, too.)

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I respectfully disagree. The skunks wouldn't be digging for them if they weren't there. Skunks don't randomly dig all over the place hoping to find grubs. They dig where they sense grubs.

I'm quite certain I don't have them. I disturbed a LOT of dirt in my yard to relevel portions. Centipedes, cicadas, weird looking worms, and crawly things of all types, but no grubs. The skunks specifically dug in the disturbed areas last year, this year nothing. They were hunting something in the disturbed areas, but grubs it was not. Plus I rototill my garden every year, again same mix of weird underground stuff, but no grubs. I think they just liked the easy digging.

They shred my neighbors yard who's never applied anything as well as close to the fence line, so he *may* have some.

I spread grubex every few years JIC though.

I read mouthwash was a common mixture that golf courses used to kill them.