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Is this a wire worm Had loads of these in plot one last year.
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Today I will be mainly growing Vegetables.
Tonight The bloody slugs & snails will eat them!
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Difficult to tell from video but from the speed of movement I'd say it was a millipede or centipede. -
I'll second that, yes it's a millipede and very friendly to gardeners and gardens.
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Rule of thumb....if it moves fast it's most likely to be a predator and therefore a 'goodie'!
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I have no idea from that video, mrgrower, but i can say that centipedes are carnivores and millipedes are herbivores. In other words, centipedes will eat your pests, millipedes will eat your plants. The best way to distinguish between the two, (apart from leg count), as Nicos says, is that centipedes move fast, and millipedes are slow.
But the creature actually looks too long to be either to me. Looks more like some sort of worm. Wireworms are larvae, so have six legs at the front end. Did your beasty have any legs?Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
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I'd say it's a soil centipede and therefore a good guy.Location ... NottinghamComment
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Just to say that if something doesn't move or is very slow, it generally sits there eating your roots whereas if it moves fast, it's helping keeping the soil fresh and moving.Originally posted by Nicos View PostRule of thumb....if it moves fast it's most likely to be a predator and therefore a 'goodie'!
i was told that by an old gardener some 30 years ago !!!!Please visit my facebook page for the garden i look after
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didn't think it was a millipede but if that's the consensus then will accept that.
Mr GToday I will be mainly growing Vegetables.
Tonight The bloody slugs & snails will eat them!
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From the way it's moving I would hazzard a guess at a baby sloworm.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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Any legs, MrG?
Where do you find them? In the compost bin? Under plastic or metal sheets? In the soil?Comment
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Definitely a centipede ,so it's a predator ,have seen these in and around buried and part buried rotting wood.
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My daughter ventured into the garden yesterday, something crawled passed her arm. She freaked out screeched "Ugh Nature!" and went back in! She really has a phobia about any creature or beastie. No idea where it came from! She once nearly fainted as she thought a bug was on her carpet - it turned out to be a raisin! hahaha
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The video is blurry and out-of-focus. From what I could tell, it's a worm...?
It's definitely not a millipede. They're black and fairly short in the UK. They also attack strawberries, so I wouldn't call them a friend.
This is the centipede, which looks more like your beasty:
Carnivorous, it eats woodlice, small slugs and the eggs of slugs and snailsAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Yes Two Sheds it's the second one all in the soil thousands of them shame they don't kill the slugs or the blighters that destroyed my spuds last season.
I was confused as people on the site who have been growing for years where saying they where wireworm but every species of wireworm I came across on the web didn't look remotely like these.
I have seen the wire worm last year and had no idea at the time that that was what I needed to get rid of all because the know it all's on the site had me on a wild goose chase
Thanks for the identification I will stop killing them now
Today I will be mainly growing Vegetables.
Tonight The bloody slugs & snails will eat them!
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It could well have been wireworm in your spuds, but they are orangey maggots (no legs).Originally posted by mrgrower View Post
On my old site, I was told to kill the "snakes", which actually turned out to be beneficial slow worms. There's a tranch of gardener that believes every form of wildlife should be exterminated, in case it eats their crops. It's always best to get a 2nd or 3rd opinion.All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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