New Zealand grass grub

Phosphate conjugates have been identified in the bodies and excreta of larvae of New Zealand grass grubs (Costelytra zealandica), and of adult houseflies (M. domestica) and blowflies (L. sericata) treated ijn vivo with 1-na thol, 2-naphthol and p-nitrophenol (29). 

Scarabaeidae. Phenol is reported to be the sex attractant for males of the grass grub beetle, Costelytra zealandica, a major economic pest of pastures in New Zealand (507 It was subsequently reported that phenol was synthesized in the colleterial glands, not by the female beetle, but rather by the bacterial flora which was housed therein (51). However, it has not been established whether or not phenol is also synthesized... 

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