"nambucca" wrote in message
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Actually if the grubs are 1" to 1.25" long they are more likely to be
chafer
grubs nasty too ..............or the larvae of stag beetles which are
beneficial


Yes - photos will follow. I'm going bug hunting this evening. Here's
hoping it's stag beetles (in that case I'll feel guilty about feeding them
to the birds), but they didn't look as fat as that, or as yellowy.

As for Armillotox - I'm going to pick some up just in case. Will garden
centres/DIY sheds carry it? I read on their website that it isn't
'officially' a pesticide in Europe, but I presume you can still pick it up
easily enough at the usual places.

This gardening lark is much more complicated than I thought. Got to be a
botanist/entomologist/chemist.