Examples of grub

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Others include tenrecs (like a hedgehog), birds, locusts, grubs and shellfish and fish by the sea or in estuaries.
His is a dirty-fingered, textured nature of grubs, rain and tenaciously detailed natural history.
Hedges are grubbed out and trees torn down.
In about 24 hours the eggs hatch, and the grubs begin to feed on the contents of the pupa.
There is culture-internal unease about the edibility of sago grubs, and this unease is compensated through protesting a great deal about earthworms.
The unease surfaces in the fact that grubs are a common food for single, idiosyncratic individuals to find disgusting, even though the grubs are collectively held in high regard.
Another insectivore, however, may prey upon mostly soft-bodied insects such as grubs, and this diet would require longer, razor-like cusps in order to shear the morsel into small pieces.
Over there, he insisted, the denizens of wretched city streets and sumptuous country seats were united in gratitude for the worms, slugs and grubs the bird consumed.
During winter, the white grub larvae were in hibernaculae below cultivation depth and are assumed not to have been directly affected by the wheat cultivation.
Public agencies work to preserve the hedge, regulating the farmer who wishes to grub them out.
The plant also supports a worm or grub that is edible when roasted and salted.
Total white grub populations peaked at 2.1 larvae per sample (7.0 larvae per row-metre equivalent) under the pasture in the first year of sampling (the third year of pasture).
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