What is this pile of bugs? Do I need to do anything else but remove them as they can't be friendly surely 🤢
by Paetience
What is this pile of bugs? Do I need to do anything else but remove them as they can't be friendly surely 🤢
by Paetience
11 Comments
Next the forensic tent.Â
I wouldn’t jump to conclusions. They’re in the soil and not your plants (yet?). They could be a tasty meal for a hedgehog or bird.
Fish one out and take some good pics for ID before killing anything.
Any robins in your garden? Leave those exposed and they’ll gobble them up!
Please ask r/whatisthisbug and update us. I’m pretty grossed out by them but equally need to know what they are! 🤢
My guess would be Crane fly larvea. Fun fact, when you look at a field of sheep, there can be as much bio mass of crane fly larvae under the ground as there are sheep.
Leather jacket larve? Bad for your spuds .. find some fowl and let them eat them or a dolphin of lime and they be gone maybe
100% leather jackets. They will reck everything bar trees in your garden. Get some nematodes
Leave them, the birds will have them
So many wrong answers. These are larvae of St Mark’s Fly. NOT leatherjackets, NOT pests, NOT a problem – they mainly just feed on decaying organic matter. The adult flies emerge in early spring.
People need to get away from this outdated ‘friend or foe’ attitude towards our wildlife. Insects are an important part if the ecosystem, and there’s no need to go round killing things out of ignorance.
They do look like leather jackets. I’ve been renovating my lawn now we’ve had some rain. I expected to find a load of the blighters so researched what I should be looking for. But instead found stag beetle lava feeding off the rotting remains of tree roots from a dead sliver birch. I’ve often wondered where all the stag beetles were coming from and now I know!
I’m wondering if given the acorns all around in the video they could be acorn weevil larvae? Hard to tell without a still up close image but that’s where my mind jumped to