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greg2007 Buford, GA(Zone 7b) Mar 18, 2007

I was digging out a new bed yesterday and came across the Grub, any idea what it is? This picture and one more in next message with a tape measure for size.
Thanks in advance!
Greg

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greg2007 Buford, GA(Zone 7b) Mar 18, 2007

Grub photo 2 with tape measure.
-Greg

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Mar 18, 2007

Large grub, large beetle... maybe a scarab beetle? I'll look around. I don't think it's one of the standard lawn munchers.

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Magpye NW Qtr, AR(Zone 6a) Mar 21, 2007

'Howdy' Greg ...

We've been hopin' to ID the very same critter!
Sorry, but haven't a clue either - - yet.

The only difference tho'; we found a bunch of these guys in the oak timber .. while cutting & splitting firewood.

We're unsure if it was the adult 'whatevers' that had bored into the Oaks and laid their eggs, then hatched into these larval grubs which chewed to create the tunnels we found them in - or - if these 'toothy-lookin' beasties were merely using the tunnels that were made from some other varmint in the oak timber. (* However, the oaks we'd harvested and found these grubby guys in - were either dying or dead; but still standing).

They do have some lil toothy something in that mouth of theirs - for they can certainly easily latch onto ones' gloves! (hee)

Maybe these grubby guys eventually fall from the timber and go into the ground .. to lay over a spell ..?..

BTW: Some mitey fantastic shots you've posted!!

Edited: to add a big ol 'hearty' welcome to DG .. to ya, Greg

- Magpye

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carlam Houston, TX(Zone 9a) Mar 21, 2007

It looks like the grub worms we have here in Texas - that usually turn into June Bugs - but that head is strange looking. It doesn't really look like the one I'm trying to identify because the head on mine only has this pointy black think that looks like a stinger coming out of it. THEY ARE BOTH - your's and mine - DISGUSTING LOOKING!!!!!!!!!!! They make me want to puke.

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Mar 21, 2007

we get huge grubs in wood here that turn into 'bess beetles,' huge black beetles with jaws, and ridges running down the wings. My book says they're docile, so we handle them and never get pinched.

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nfarren Cornwall, NY Dec 03, 2009

I just came across one of these in a "lawn" on a heavily wooded property in the Hudson River Valley. Might even have been at the base of an oak. Would love an ID

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Dec 03, 2009

This appears to be a larva of a long-horned wood-boring beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in the subfamily Prioninae - see http://tinyurl.com/ydmt4up for an image. The larvae of these very large beetles often are found underground boring in tree roots and the like.

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