White grub

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(Zool.) the larva of the June bug and other allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants, and often do much damage.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Only a few berries and an occasional grub worm rewarded his search, and he was half famished when, looking up from a log he had been rooting beneath, he saw Sabor, the lioness, standing in the center of the trail not twenty paces from him.
a grub worm when the black constellations make you swim backwards in
Our knowledge of nature's offerings can extend from the grub worm's tiny tunnel to the wide open skies where the turkey vultures soar.
I took great delight today, after digging up a meager potato crop, to carefully gather up each, cream colored grub worm that I encountered.
Our tomatillos had beetles, and our potatoes and crosnes had grub worms, yet the tobacco leaves were left intact.
Treat for Grub Worms. If critters such as armadillos and possums are digging up the landscape, that's a sign that grub worms and cutworms have infested the lawn.
Within the span of a two-week period, eight nursing students and I survived the death road; saw our boat capsize and then catch fire; were invaded by squirrel monkeys; swam with dolphins while Pedro, a 12-foot alligator served as our lifeguard; slept on a beach only to be attacked by an over-zealous population of sand fleas; ate grub worms; assisted in putting out a jungle fire; and treated 2,500 individuals with health concerns.
"You got worms or grub worms from manure piles and any kind of little minnow you could get, often little perch."
This tribute to human skill gave way to a pile of dancers resembling discarded corpses or perhaps grub worms newly unearthed.
So as much as a month before our spades hit the dirt, bats may be preventing an infestation of June bug larvae, grub worms. The positive impact bats can have on crops is truly amazing.