What pesticide is effective for controlling scarab beetles

Despite the scarab beetle's nice-sounding name and attractive appearance, it is actually a pest. The scarab beetle is an omnivorous pest that causes a certain amount of damage to many fruit trees such as pears, grapes, apples, and others. So today we will learn about the harm caused by scarab beetles and what pesticide to use for scarab beetles?

The harm caused by scarab beetles

The larvae of scarab beetles are collectively called white grubs. The occurrence and damage of white grubs are closely related to temperature, humidity, food, tillage and cultivation methods, and nearby forest trees, fruit trees, crops, grasslands, and other conditions. White grubs have a broad and omnivorous diet, mainly damaging the roots and stems, root tubers, and tubers of various grains, legumes, vegetables, grasslands, lawns, tea trees, fruit trees, and forest trees and their seedlings, causing missing plants and broken rows, withering of grasslands and lawns, or poor plant development, and in severe cases causing devastating disasters.

Adult scarab beetles feed on the leaves of many fruit trees and forest trees. In severe cases, they can gnaw all the leaves of entire trees and entire patches of forest until only the leaf veins remain, with tree species such as Chinese chestnut, walnut, alder, birch-leaf pear, pear, peach, and persimmon suffering especially heavily. Some species of adults also damage crops and grass cover, and quite seriously. In our city, it is mainly the tea-colored scarab beetle that damages various crops and grass cover.

What pesticide to use for scarab beetles

Use low-toxicity, low-residue, highly effective insecticides to drench the roots and poison the white grubs, and spray after 9 p.m. to kill adult scarab beetles.

Scarab beetles can be killed with agents such as phoxim microcapsule suspension, chlorpyrifos emulsifiable concentrate, kung fu emulsifiable concentrate, baode emulsifiable concentrate, fenvalerate, and Supracide emulsifiable concentrate. Generally, after they emerge from the soil, 25% phoxim microcapsule suspension or 50% phoxim emulsifiable concentrate or 40% chlorpyrifos emulsifiable concentrate can be used, with a dosage of 300-400g per mu, diluted into a 300-fold solution, and evenly sprayed on the ground for complete kill.