Identify this allotment alien please!

[SeleneMourie]

I have seen a miniscule things that looked like this in my containers which you guys identified as a vine weasel (thank you!)

This was at the allotment 6 inches down under the pea plants and is over an inch in size!!!

[bearded bloke]

Looks like a pupae that is part way to becoming a caterpillar to me

[bearded bloke]

it could also be a pupae becoming a fly of some sort

[veggiechicken]

Is it a Cock Chafer grub How to identify a cockchafer May bug | Natural History Museum

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...ockchafer.html

[Thelma Sanders]

That looks like it VC - they look really weird when they're half and half

[SeleneMourie]

Blimey!!!
Thank you for the quick identification, it is definitely a cockchafer!
The name did make me giggle :/ but in olde english it means big beetle
Thank you for the link, very fascinating!

[Potstubsdustbins]

These might give you a problem, where there is one there is usually more and they can ruin your crops or even your lawn.

The beetles arrive in a swarm to lay their eggs. They then stay in the ground for some time and eat the roots of plant life. Another problem is that some wildlife including foxes will dig for them again causing damage. I had my lawn ruined last year and had to resort to a chemical spray to get rid of them.

I would suggest you have a good read up on them so you are fully aware.

Colin

[Snadger]

They make good fishing bait for trout! Round here they call them docken grubs, As has been mentioned they can become a real pest especially if you get them in lawns. Its not particullarily the damage they do by eating the roots, its the likes of crows trying to dig em up.

[Two_Sheds]

vine weasel

lol, that would be a BIG bug to find


Your chafer grubs: if you have a lawn you can get them out without digging. Lay a sheet of black plastic overnight, after watering. In the morning the grubs will have risen to the surface and you can dispose of them (birdtable?)

[SeleneMourie]

Thank you for all the advice and i am now fully read up on chafer grubs.
As some might know i only have a tiny plot which has 80 other tiny plots which is built on an old field which grew over an old limestone quarry (my neighbour dug up a bronze age axe earlier this year) backed on to a nature reserve and all the paths are lawn :/

I have resided to the fact there are may be hundreds of them :/

On the plus side most of the birds including the falcon and the foxes prefer to be up the nature reserve hill in the woods eating the bunnies at the top.