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Bug i.d. please
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 |
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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. -- Rusty |
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"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message ... 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. I might be tempted to do that, too. They could be almost any beetle larva but definitely not stag beetle as they live (preferably) in rotting apple trees and take 7 years to turn into adults. Tina |
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Christina Websell wrote:
I might be tempted to do that, too. They could be almost any beetle larva but definitely not stag beetle as they live (preferably) in rotting apple trees and take 7 years to turn into adults. They like (or liked...) old elms too. -- Rusty |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Rusty Hinge" wrote in message ... 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. I might be tempted to do that, too. They could be almost any beetle larva but definitely not stag beetle as they live (preferably) in rotting apple trees and take 7 years to turn into adults. Tina Thanks for the responses everybody. I'll accept that they're fairly benign in the weeds on the allotment, at least they're not in my lawn. They can go on the grass path between the plots and take their chances with the birds. Steve |
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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 |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2010-10-18 14:28:39 +0100, "shazzbat" said: 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? Look horribly like vine weevil grubs to me. Not those I'm afraid. I'm familiar with VW grubs, this is much bigger. There are 6 legs which don't show up very well on the pic. The legs are all at the front end, ie the end on the right of the pic. Very off-balance in the leg department. Steve |
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On 18 Oct, 16:19, Janet wrote:
In article , says... 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 chafer grubs http://www.thenaturalgardener.co.uk/chafer_grub.php Janet Yes, chafer grubs. Foe. |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 harry 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 chafer grubs http://www.thenaturalgardener.co.uk/chafer_grub.php Janet Yes, chafer grubs. Foe. Aka June bugs. I had masses of them in my compost heap a few years back. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK http://rance.org.uk |
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David Rance wrote:
Aka June bugs. I had masses of them in my compost heap a few years back. May bugs. June bugs are stag beetles. -- Rusty |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 Rusty Hinge wrote:
David Rance wrote: Aka June bugs. I had masses of them in my compost heap a few years back. June bugs are stag beetles. Wrong. Google for June bug and you'll see that it isn't the stag beetle. However I was wrong is saying that the chafer beetle was the same as the June bug and you were correct in saying that it is the May bug. However what I had was certainly the larva of the June bug and I suspect, from the photo, that that is what Shazzbat has. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK http://rance.org.uk |
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