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Tanya Latty, Associate professor, University of Sydney

Don’t kill the curl grubs in your garden – they could be native beetle babies

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Have you ever been in the garden and found a large, white, C-shaped grub with a distinctive brown head and six legs clustered near the head?

If so, you’ve had an encounter with the larva of a scarab beetle (family: Scarabaeidae) also known as a “curl grub”.

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