Thread: Bug i.d. please
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Old 18-10-2010, 06:32 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rusty Hinge[_2_] Rusty Hinge[_2_] is offline
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Default Bug i.d. please

shazzbat wrote:
I've ben finding these handsome chaps on the allotment lately. I can't
remember having found them before.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...life/18Oct.jpg

Friend or foe?


Dunno - it looks like a beetle larva, something like a lamellicorn - but
it isn't that beetle, quite.

I'd put them in a box/tin, or better, the bottom half of a plastic milk
bottle, along with some of the soil or detritus they're living in, and
see what they turn into.

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Rusty