What are these grubs in my compost?

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  June 2021

  My ant eggs look very much like rice krispies, about the same size.
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2021

  Fire said:

  My ant eggs look very much like rice krispies, about the same size.
  

  Yes, that’s what I think they are. The larval cocoons of the ants. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• nemrac Posts: 70

  June 2021

  Thanks for all this information, so nothing to worry about then? I’ll carry on doing what I’m doing vis a vis composting.👍

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