New Zealand Invertebrates

11005-70023 Grass grub, or tutaeruru (Costelytra zealandica) these little chafers fly in buzzing swarms at dusk in summer, eating huge quantities of the leaves of trees and shrubs. While in winter the grub lives in the soil eating the roots of grass and other plants, and causing the most damage in Otago and Southland.

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11005-70023 Grass grub, or tutaeruru (Costelytra zealandica) these little chafers fly in buzzing swarms at dusk in summer, eating huge quantities of the leaves of trees and shrubs. While in winter the grub lives in the soil eating the roots of grass and other plants, and causing the most damage in Otago and Southland.

70023 Grass grub tutaeruru beetle chafer Costelytra zealandica native pest