A company that specialises in insect monitoring and control has created a trap designed to capture chafer grubs in the garden.
Oecos, of Kimpton in Hertfordshire say that the trap, which is primed with a powerful pheromone, will attract adult chafer beetles thus leading to less eggs being laid in lawns and soil.
The chafer grub - Phyllopertha horticola - is extremely destructive, feeding on the succulent white roots of grass causing large patches to die out.
Secondary damage is caused as crows, woodpeckers, badgers and foxes tear up the dying turf to feed on the grubs.
The manufacturers say that the trap will reduce the number of egg laying adults but also give the carer of the turf an indication of where to release nematodes of treat with chemicals.
Eocos
Address: 11a High Street | Kimpton | Hertfordshire | SG4 8RA
Tel : 01438 832481
Fax : 01438 832157
Email: sales@oecos.co.uk
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