Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe #2, 1 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
It's almost time for me to start another thread, but until then I'm going to give a picture of another helpful critter. This is the larva of a firefly (which is actually a beetle in the family Lampyridae). Although the adult beetles aren't known to eat (except certain females that lure other species of males to eat), the larva are predatory on various insects and other critters, including, for some species, snails. Firefly larvae generally live beneath fallen logs and leaf debris. Their head is usually concealed, and that is why this larva appears to be headless.