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Junebug Food


name         Alyssa
status       student
age          9

Question -   What do junebugs eat?

Adults eat leaves and flowers, larvae are fat white grubs that live in the
soil and eat roots of grass and other plants. Both adults and larvae can
sometimes do serious damage to plants.
J. Elliott

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