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Sentence Examples Removing the larvae by hand by slitting the stem and digging out the grubs with a knife is labor-intensive, but effective. I swear, if I find that it was emissions from my truck causing it, I will dig a hole in the backyard, climb in, and eat grubs for sustenance. The men can depend upon women for the delicacies of life, tasty grubs and honey-bags, when their hunting powers decline. The hog-nosed skunk is named for its fleshy, pig-like snout, which it uses to root for insects and grubs. The hog-nosed skunk uses its long snout to turn up leaf litter as it searches for worms, grubs, and insects. Male stylopids look a bit like beetles, but the females look like small grubs, with no eyes, antennae or legs. The bird strips the bark off dying trees with its powerful beak to get to insect grubs beneath. Masked chafers or annual white grubs have pearly white eggs laid by the tan beetle female in July. They gathered the grubs, cooked them, and placed them in a small wooden pitchi. The grubs that you see in the lawn are the larvae of Japanese beetles, June beetles, and chafers. Perhaps it's best not to think of the sea of grubs, flies and beetles there must be underfoot. More wireworms and white grubs have been observed and increased numbers of dingy cutworms, which overwinter here, are likely. They collect twelve species of mushrooms, four types of termites, crickets, three types of grubs, and twelve species of caterpillars. One chose witchetty grubs diligently for their flavour depended on the host tree, lemon aspen being especially tasty. An example would be genes for insecticidal proteins to fight white grubs and other pests. They learn how to cook witchetty grubs, concoct bush medicines and make boomerangs and axes. Early fall, when grubs feed near the surface, is the best time to control them. I think this afternoon we might be able to do a bit better for you, by taking some witchetty grubs. Nematodes have been successfully deployed against a wide range of insect pests, including white grubs, weevils, fruit flies and woodwasps. Many birds of prey were hopping around on the ground, eating grubs and worms, unable to fly because of the lack of thermals. Show More Sentences They appear in the morning and fly over turf in search of beetle grubs or the larvae of other insects. Just a couple grubs per square foot are not a problem to an otherwise healthy lawn. The grubs of the delicate lacewing gorge themselves on greenfly, as well as leafhoppers and other soft-bodied pests. This damage has been caused by the grubs of the azalea leaf miner and usually occurs on indoor plants in autumn and winter. Moles have small, sharp incisors and canine teeth that are used for catching and eating grubs and earthworms. Beetle grubs can turn a fine looking lawn into a patchwork quilt of yellow spots. You lift a rotting log with one hand and pry out juicy grubs with your other forefinger. However, these grubs are the larvae of beetles, most commonly the June beetle in this area. Check asparagus spears for red, black and yellow asparagus beetles and their khaki grubs. This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion. Dwarf mongooses mainly feed on insects like termites, locusts, beetles, grubs, larvae and spiders. They also enjoy beetle grubs known as bardees and green tree ants mashed into a paste with water and used as a drink. They will readily accept human handouts of mealworms and bird grubs, often becoming so tame that they can be hand-fed. Because the tongue of a young woodpecker has a smooth tip, the sticky, glue-like saliva is used to pull grubs out of their galleries. It rips open bee trees to feast on honey, honeycombs, bees, and larvae, and will tear apart rotting logs for grubs, beetles, crickets, and ants. The philosophy seemed to be that you don't catch grubs by keeping your hands clean. Apple scab over-winters on fallen leaves, codling moth caterpillars live in fallen apples and pear midge grubs live in fallen fruitlets. It lures male codling moths on to a sticky platform to limit fertilisation of the females and reduce the number of grubs, which feed inside developing fruits. Fish are subject to a variety of maladies, such as grubs or worms, which may be found in or on the skin, attached to gills, or embedded in the flesh. While often corn might quickly outgrow the threat of significant pest damage, when plant growth stalled, armyworms, cutworms, wireworms, and white grubs found opportunity. Show More Sentences When it comes to finding such Australian sweetmeats as witchetty grubs and honey pot ants, Aboriginal women are masters at divining underground hideouts. We were all watching an improving video about butterflies when the voice-over stated that witchetty grubs are high in protein and very low in cholesterol. While foraging, the pigs roust grubs that the pheasants eat. Although their diet includes some acorns and beechnuts in the fall, pileated woodpeckers eat mostly ants, flying insects, grubs, and some seeds and fruits. These grubs create straight, narrow mines as they tunnel into the leaves, followed by larger, brown or yellow blisters as they grow and feed inside the foliage. Nigel Collinson writes from Sutton-on-the-Forest wanting to know if the eggs and grubs of vine weevils will survive in the frozen compost of containers. In the dark of the night, the rat-size slow-moving animals sniff with their long tubular snouts for ants, insects, grubs, and small reptiles that venture forth. On hatching of eggs, the grubs feed on soft tissues inside the trunk. If the early stand loss is a result of seedcorn maggot, wireworm, grubs, or early cutworm infestation, timely response with rescue treatments may not be feasible. Soil-applied insecticides recommended for control of rootworm larvae also may prevent early stand losses due to wireworms, grubs, seedcorn maggot, and seedcorn beetles. Underneath, white grubs with brown heads lie curled on the soil's surface. The grubs migrate through the tissue to the loin area where they encyst, cut a breathing hole in the skin of the animal on the back-line and complete their larval development. The cutest little blue wren eats voraciously of the insects and grubs that are silly enough to be in the same patch of ground he is. Other newcomers to the centre include 20 giant thorny stick insects plus fruit beetle grubs, sand lizards and Indian stick insects. In our account of the mason-wasps, we have referred to the destruction of their grubs by the interposition of the ruby-tails or cuckoo-wasps. What does the thought of eating huhu grubs and plump snails feel like to you? It is orange frass that you find near the base of the tree when borers are at work, not the grubs themselves. Here, you can taste everything from huhu grubs to whitebait fritters along with whisky sausages and lambs' tails. We're worried that the poison will seep down into the river under the ground and poison our muku and tjala, witchetty grubs and honey ants. There were live witchetty grubs and honey ants, as well as native tobacco, a mild narcotic which Prince Philip picked up and smelt. Show More Sentences Corvids demolish wire-worms in grain crops, and in root and tuber crops are happy to dine on snails and grubs, caterpillars and insects. The green caterpillar-like grubs are about 2cm long with black spots and may also eat red and white currants. He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons. Birds can damage a roof while they are foraging for grubs, and rodents are attracted by residual grain in straw. In southeastern states, grubs of Phyllophaga, southern masked chafer, the green June beetle, and Japanese beetles are traditionally associated with damaged turfgrass. Nuthatches search the crevices of bark at other times during the year for insects, including beetles, earwigs, flies and bugs, and they open galls to extract grubs. Brown bears will also commonly consume animal matter, which in summer and autumn may regularly be in the form of insects, larvae and grubs, including beehives. It will certainly be a little different to C-list celebrities showering themselves in the Australian jungle, dining out on a diet of worms and grubs or watching hens lay eggs. Her replacements are Kate Stonestreet of Scottish band Pennycress and Roxy Brennan of Two White Cranes and Grubs. White Grubs and Their Allies, A Study of North American Scarabaeoid Larvae. Grubs and maggots are also excellent bait when trout fishing. Examples from Classical Literature The caterpillar lives with the ichneumon grubs within it usually until nearly time for its pupation. Inside the caprifig are the grubs of the fig-wasp, which rejoice in the name of Blastophaga grossorum. Caterpillars, grubs, and beetles specialize on defoliation and feed upon the leaves, the lungs of the trees. Here swarm in common the grubs of the greenbottle, the flesh fly and the bluebottle. Then the bluebottle, the flesh fly and other flies whose grubs batten on dead bodies are kept at a proper distance. She is the foundress of the establishment, the mother of the actual workers, the grandmother of the present grubs. The greenbottle grubs, and the grubs of other Flies as well, have a wonderful power of turning solid things into liquid. Even in this imperfect case, it is obvious that the greenbottle grubs begin by liquefying their food. The greenbottle's eggs, though these are of very rapid development, take twenty-four hours to yield their grubs. This mushroom is especially free from grubs and it can be dried for winter use. Why wasn't she out scampering and running all the time, and hunting for grubs? After the liquefaction, the grubs try to make off, showing that the fare is not to their liking. It always kind of gives me a thrill to see them ugly white grubs that spade up in the cucumber beds. Other edible insects include meal worms, tomato hornworms, katydids, beetle grubs, locusts, and grasshoppers. These bolls will not drop, but the grubs ruin the cotton they contain. He made a special study of birds in relation to the eradication of grubs. In past years when July and August were droughty, the numbers of grubs were significantly fewer than wet years. I recently observed a robin boring for grubs in a country dooryard. Water it so as to keep it growing and follow the development of the grubs. Remember the grubs of the greenbottle, fed on hard-boiled white of egg. Show More Sentences He hunted, too, for deep-boring grubs under the bark of the trees, and robbed the wasps of their new broods. The grubs rarely exceed three-quarters of an inch in length. A cascade of Oddities, chips of broken comb, scale, fluff, and grubs slid out, crackled, sizzled, popped a little, and then the flames roared up and consumed all that fuel. Find more words! 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