Kate Spencer wrote:
Hello all

Just found one of those disgusting fat worm like creatures in a pot on
my balcony, the ones that eat all the roots.
I emptied all the pots as other plants had failed to grow and were
growing weaker.

Can someone explain how they find their way on to a balcony, do they
start out as an egg having been carried there by a flying insect and do
they travel from pot to pot?

My balcony is up high and has full light and sun all day but manages to
attract more livestock than you can poke a stick at.

Be glad of any help to keep these wormlike things at bay.

Thank you, Kate
(Sydney)

Can you give a better description of the animal? What colour is it? How
long/wide? Does it have legs or claws? How many body segments (3 - 10 -
or many)?

If you mean the fat whitish grubs from one to three inches long that
curl into a ring and have six orange claws, then those are beetle larvae
and they certainly are laid in the soil as an egg. They bite too (check
out the mouthparts)!

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Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia