@Dovefromabove thanks for this link. It clearly shows a snake centipede which I had been misidentifying as wireworms since childhood. I had always thought the bulkier centipedes were the only ones I would see and had thought these skinnier ones were wireworms but thanks to your link I can see I was wrong.
You’re not the only one @robairdmacraignil 😊 👍 ... I’ve been carefully and very tentatively (and on some occasions totally ineffectively) trying to explain just that to gardeners and allotmenteers ever since I was shown the difference when I was at school with a remarkable lad who grew up to be a naturalist and explorer.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.