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Chafer Beetle Control
Nematode application can be included in our Landscape Maintenance contracts for our clients in strata complexes. We also offer this program for residential home owners that are looking to improve their lawn health.
Important Steps In
Nematode Application
Lush and healthy looking lawn should be essential to a Landscape Maintenance practices. Systematic and consistent care required to keep your lawn in top shape. We’ve designed annual care strategy to keep lawns healthy.
Timing of Chafer Beetle Control
It is crucial to apply Nematodes in specific times in Grubs life cycle. That is when they are closest to the surface and are more reachable
Number Of Applications
Application success depends on weather, microclimate of the treated area and time of a year. To insure best results we recommend 2 application a year
Proper Products
Nematodes are alive organisms so need to be kept in proper environment before use. Best place to get them is directly from growers and not general hardware stores.
What Are Nematodes?
Nematodes are microscopic, beneficial organisms that actively hunt, penetrate and destroy over 200 pests from up to 100 insect families. They most effective on immature grub stages of insects before they mature to adults. Being natural, beneficial nematodes are safe to use around humans, children and pets. They won’t harm non-target organisms such as bees, or other pollinators. These beneficial nematodes attack the larval stages of soil-dwelling pests, leaving the plants alone.
How To Know if my lawn has
European Chafer Damage
European Chafer is commonly known as Grub. They are 2-2.5cm in length, have brown head and white body with black tail. Grub is also C shaped.
Due to the rapid reproduction rate European Chafer has become an invasive pest. The beetle and larva feeds on the
roots of many plants including grass, where it has become most noticeable.
While Grubs usually do not cause heavy damage to lawns, racoons and crows are. They feed on grubs and dig them out from the ground causing most noticeable damage to lawns.
Most noticeable signs of lawn damage are : animal damage, spongy lawn areas, inconsistent yellowing of the lawn
