Thread: Bug i.d. please
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Old 18-10-2010, 06:37 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Bug i.d. please

On 18 Oct, 14:28, "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?

--
Steve

Never shake the ketchup bottle. None'll come, and then a lot'll


With others, this is a chafer grub. A root feeder so foe. However I've
never seen serious damage in a veg plot. Very damaging in lawns and it
gets worse when the badgers come along to dig them up.

Rod