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PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS GRUB/LARVAE!!! :/
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PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS GRUB/LARVAE!!! :/
Hi, I have a bug/grub/larvae problem currently. I live third floor/top
floor up in a block of units, I have a large balcony and have only
recently moved in about 3 weeks ago. but the last week these
grubs/larvae have been crawling across the tiles on my balcony and I
have found a few inside my apartment.
They look like maggots but must
develop spikes on their back. I recently found a common Army grub (green
with stripes, non-hairy), it was on a new plant that i bought about a
day or two before hand. I'm not sure if these larvae/grubs are products
of this grub as i threw it over the balcony.
I will attach pictures to
this but I was hoping you could tell me what they are and where
the dwell, I have thoroughly searched the balcony, moving plants,
looking under pots, in crack etc, surface sprayed, boiling water,
vinegar etc and cant seem to find a colony or specified place they were
coming from. I moved a bag of soil and noticed a few cocoons/ larvae
stuck onto the bag so chucked that out. BUT THEY ARE STILL COMINGGGG!!!


HEEEELPPPPPP
Alex
floor up in a block of units, I have a large balcony and have only
recently moved in about 3 weeks ago. but the last week these
grubs/larvae have been crawling across the tiles on my balcony and I
have found a few inside my apartment.

develop spikes on their back. I recently found a common Army grub (green
with stripes, non-hairy), it was on a new plant that i bought about a
day or two before hand. I'm not sure if these larvae/grubs are products
of this grub as i threw it over the balcony.

this but I was hoping you could tell me what they are and where
the dwell, I have thoroughly searched the balcony, moving plants,
looking under pots, in crack etc, surface sprayed, boiling water,
vinegar etc and cant seem to find a colony or specified place they were
coming from. I moved a bag of soil and noticed a few cocoons/ larvae
stuck onto the bag so chucked that out. BUT THEY ARE STILL COMINGGGG!!!


HEEEELPPPPPP

Alex
albutler123- Posts : 2
Join date : 2012-04-19
Location : Sydney
Re: PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS GRUB/LARVAE!!! :/
Oh dear, I know how you feel, but listen, they will not hurt you, they are just kind of disgusting. You have a few in a jar, can you take them to university or someplace else for ID. They might be flies, or beetles. Maybe the landlord knows. If you find out please let us know. Good luck!
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS GRUB/LARVAE!!! :/
camprn wrote:Oh dear, I know how you feel, but listen, they will not hurt you, they are just kind of disgusting. You have a few in a jar, can you take them to university or someplace else for ID. They might be flies, or beetles. Maybe the landlord knows. If you find out please let us know. Good luck!
Thankyou, I have e-mailed a few garden places so hopefully they know. If not, I will ring a university and see if they can help. Will keep the topic posted.
I have just always had a fear of worms/grubs/maggots crawling into my nose/ ear and slept with a blanket over my head for months as a child haha.
albutler123- Posts : 2
Join date : 2012-04-19
Location : Sydney
Re: PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS GRUB/LARVAE!!! :/
See if it's here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=fly+larvae&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4sWQT5qCEOvH6AHp1amnBA&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1243&bih=616&sei=2MeQT5q2A4636QGZvYmxBA
http://www.google.com/search?q=fly+larvae&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4sWQT5qCEOvH6AHp1amnBA&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1243&bih=616&sei=2MeQT5q2A4636QGZvYmxBA
Grandpop-
Posts : 79
Join date : 2012-03-05
Location : Newbern, TN, 7A, Extreme West Tn. - 15 Miles from Miss. River.
Re: PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS GRUB/LARVAE!!! :/
LOL Grand pop, all those photos are likely to send poor Alex over the edge... bleck... 

43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY THIS GRUB/LARVAE!!! :/
Looks like fly bots to me...Make sure you don't have a dead mouse or bird somewhere out there.
sceleste54-
Posts : 383
Join date : 2010-04-08
Location : Florida Panhandle

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