1.   Baer said that unlike crabgrass, which infiltrates bare patches where grass once grew, grubs kill the grass itself by eating the roots.

2.   Do they or their larvae eat roots or deposit something in the soil that could cause roots to die?

3.   He ate roots and stole food and went hungry.

4.   Here, eat this root.

5.   Surviving crops had been removed, and planners are now assessing how to dispose of soil contaminated with a pathogenic nematode, a tiny worm that ate crop roots.

6.   The grubs have eaten the roots of the lawn in the back.

7.   They can destroy your pond plants by eating their roots, and they often require very fancy filtration systems.

8.   They say that for more than three weeks, they have been trying to catch rainwater on plastic tarps and eating roots to survive.

9.   They pull the grass out and eat the roots.

10.   Unlike grubs, which eat roots, armyworms feed on the grass blades and expose the critical base to the intense heat.