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grubs
Paul Langford
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Hi
Just been potting up various seeds etc using the rest of a bag of compost from last year. I have found 3 grubs in there which I thought might be vine weevil larvae but having looked them up on the internet I am not not sure. They are alive and about 1cm long with aslender white body and a pink pointed nose with numerous legs.
Hope some one can help
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They sound like cartoon creatures.....any chance of a photo of the pointy nosed larvae?
If they've got legs they're not vine weevil grubs.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thanks for your replies, have squashed the 3 I have found so far but will be using the rest of the compost during this week so will post a photo if more appear
There are good grubs - there are also some very special grubs like Stag beetle larvae - I know it's a sort of instinctive reaction to finding bugs, but I don't squidge things unless I know 100% it's going to do real harm in my garden and there's no alternative and it's not an endangered species.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Im always hesitant using bags that have been open since the year before since finding one full of slugs and their eggs
I'm always hesitant using bags that that have been open since the year before since grabbing hold of the rolled over top of the bag and annoying a sleep queen wasp who'd chosen it for her hibernation bedchamber.
Ouch!!!! That hurt!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yup, I doubt that would be viewed very happily by said Queen. I've seen a few flying around yesterday and today. Really haven't timed that well, the poor scones.
A couple of years ago the OH went and opened the shed door for the first time that year. The lovely papery nest of a queen bee/wasp was destroyed, and he was stung on the back of the neck. One anaphylactic reaction and an ambulance later I had to go into the shed and pronounce it wasp-free before he'd go into the garden! So it's not just bags to worry about.
here is a photo (hope it can be seen) of the item I spoke about. This one is about half the size of others I have found
I would say that's a beetle larvae of some sort - hard to say which.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.