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Post by ianr on Sept 4, 2018 10:01:12 GMT
Planting a new shrub in the garden the other day and dug up several of these little monsters, cockchafer grubs I would say and they bite  ian  cockchafer grub by ian robinson, on Flickr |
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Post by Tringa on Sept 4, 2018 12:32:29 GMT
From looking at photos online I agree with the ID, Ian.
Quite a 'monster', but then the adults are sizeable beasts too.
Dave
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Post by accipiter on Sept 8, 2018 10:43:37 GMT
Bit of useless information here being a simple country boy – pleb, we use to call cockchafers midsummer dor, and funnily enough our children - also plebs, called them gumbees.
Alan, still wandering
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Post by duncan74 on Sept 8, 2018 14:19:26 GMT
Great image Ian of the cockchafer larva, Melolontha melolontha,
Duncan
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