Originally Posted by Miss Perspicacia Tick

Garden puss wrote:
I was edging my lawn, and there was an insect/grub/something a couple
of inches under the soil that I turned up that I didn't recognise. Of
course, I am a complete novice gardener, so it may be something
common! But it wasn't in any of my (few!) gardening books, and I
haven't found anything on the net. Perhaps somebody could help me?

It was about an inch long, shiny conker-brown, rounded at one end, and
pointy cone-shaped (with distinct segments). The pointy end kept on
swivelling round as if looking for something or wanting to burrow back
down (but being on my trowel it had no luck).

So, what was it? And is it friend or foe?

Thanks in advance!

I would say earwig, but then I would have thought that anyone would have
been able to recognise an earwig.

As we have nothing to go on (as the policeman said when he found someone had
nicked all the urinals. Come back tomorrow, folks, I'm here all week!) could
you give me some more info: -

1) Was it a beetle? Did it have a hard carapace?2) Could it fly? Were
its wings visible (i.


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