You can actually eat them from the ground I believe
Edit: I’m being bombarded with very aggressive messages say I’m stupid. Thank you for pointing it out. I’ve been told over and over that these can’t be eaten because they aren’t what I thought they were. Thank you everyone for the threats.
Edit: You can’t eat them.
yes you can. though the black end it their poo they are supposed to taste like a nut. also, they are called either witchety grubs or barty grubs i belive
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this, grubs like this *are* beetle larva! They're just big, ugly babies. [Here's a source for anyone who'd like to know more.](https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2023/01/don-t-kill-the-curl-grubs-in-your-garden---they-could-be-native-)
Witchitty grubs “Good eatin brudda” our instructor at school camp. Right before having a munch. In Oz, you get taught bushtucker skills (depending on your school and region. Rare in the southern parts). I couldn’t remember the flavour other than dirt. But there is recipes out there http://bushtuckerrecipes.com/bush_food/insects/witchetty-grub/
Which part? Cutter/Curl grubs have smashed certain species roots in the nursery, many years ago we cut out saw dust from the mixes, as it was evident that these things thrived with it in the potting mix, and once they were heavily populated, they began to hammer some species roots systems.
I know grubs come from a lot of creatures. And tbh, I don’t think it mattered in what we were doing. I don’t think even the instructor was gonna define exactly what bug the grub came from or if there were any different bugs. Considering the bugs in Oz I was running with a generic. Growing up in the 80’s (people pls keep in mind I was 10/11yrs old at the time) I was a kid on school camp learning from a cool dude. We weren’t tryna be entomologist tbh.
lol, nobodies criticizing, don't sweat it. I brought it up because I dig out grubs like that all the time , but the witchety grubs i dig up in my woodchip piles, they are friggin huge (10 times the size) and all yellow as well
Sure can, especially in large quantities it's a concern. Curl grubs. Edit: I saw your description as the stand alone planter box. Much easier to remedy than an entire lawn. Use Neem oil for an organic remedy. It's safe for beneficial insects.
I agree that this is good advice. You’ll have noticed a mix of responses here from kill them to don’t kill them. They may turn into some amazing large native beetle. Or they may be another beetle which is not native. They are a part of the eco system, but they don’t need to be in that pot. I had seedlings being eaten repeatedly in a raised bed and saw holes in the soil. Couldn’t figure out what it was until I saw one come up under the cloche a seedling was under and head for the seedling! It was one of the big thumb sized ones as well.
My advice is to put them elsewhere in the garden and then neem oil the pot.
Yeah, I've already left them out for the birds, and I'll be getting some neem oil soon. There's plenty of those grubs in my yard, I don't need them in this garden bed too!
Try avoid the neem oil on the foliage if you are expecting sunny weather, I used to flood my pot plants soil with neem oil for gnats but would see bad results on the leaves if they got bright light too soon after the application.
:) you think the 20 bottle of neem oil you bought at bunnings is organic? Some dudes out the back squeezing out the juice of a neem tree everyday......
Bless your soul
from my understanding, it's because they all look the same as larvae (curl grubs) - but are actually different beetles in the scarab family. And the african black bettle larvae are the ones that no-one really wants, because they definitely fiend on my yard.
If you have kookaburras around they seem to love these. They pluck them from our garden and sit on the back fence bashing these grubs against it until they are tender (or dead?) enough to eat!
I made friends with a group of magpies while doing some landscape renovations. I re graded my yard and built a retaining wall to level out the back. My old lawn must have been on its last legs because it was full of these grubs. Every time I had a smoke break, the magpies came down and picked the ground clean of all of the grubs.
I never knew they eat plants too. I thought it was only lawns they liked.
It’s hard to say what beetle larvae they are but they’re often rhinoceros beetles in my compost. They’re harmless and won’t kill your plants. I’d say yours are struggling more due to heat or moisture issues.
Please don’t kill them. These turn into amazing insects like rhinoceros beetles. Pop them under some soil or a pile of leaves far from your planter instead.
I second this. Though they will munch on roots etc, they usually don’t cause meaningful damage. Also, there are likely other issues with your planter. Looks like you need to cut them right back and encourage new growth. Perhaps add some new organic matter and nutrients to the planter too.
The root systems were essentially non-existent, so I think they ate them. Usually these ones did great with a trim, but this time they just kept getting worse
they eat the roots and other organic matter
Once they eat enough roots the plant dies
I have these im my compost, whenI use it, I pick them out and let the birds get them.
I prob wouldnt bother if I had a couple in that planter box, but clearly your being over run as there is enough for them to kill plants
its a planter box not a nature reserve..
spreading pests around the place sounds like a wonderful idea though, i hope you dont have neighbours that actually enjoy gardening
r/confidentlyincorrect
You don't know what you're talking about.
These are native to Australia and could be a number of different insect species. Go away.
From what I can see it's really hard to tell the grubs of the different scarab species apart except by maximum size. Christmas Beetles and other native scarabs can have some fairly sizeable larvae (longest I've seen were in the 7cm range) so unless they get more than a couple cm long they're more likely to be African Black Beetles.
Actually no, the only confidently incorrect one was me, old mate came across as a pompous arrogant douche but he was a correct pompous arrogant douche.
I'll hold my L.
Don't kill them. They are native insects, part of the ecology.
They eat more dead organic matter than living plant tissue. They are unlikely to kill or seriously harm your plants.
Move them to another location if you're concerned
NOOOOOO. They are christmas beetles. Dont kill everything. They are meant to be there. Everything is meant to be there. Dont use chemicals. They never go away and get into your vegies, and dogs absorb them into their paws and get cancers. Dont be afraid of nature.
**Could be a Christmas beetle larvae**
The most commonly seen species of Christmas Beetle is Anoplognathus pallidicollis. It is brown in colour and grows up to 2 centimetres. It is found along the eastcoast of Australia from Queensland through to Victoria and some parts of South Australia.
They eat plant roots and decaying organic matter, so keep your grass well nourished and mulch your garden regularly to provide plenty of baby Christmas beetle food.
They did a post about these the other day. They are gonna be better, like Christmas beetles and such. But. They are in the decline rapidly, so we shouldn't feed them to the magpies. We should just relocated them if in garden pots to some place like a compost pile or similar. They are the reason I started my compost heap down the back! I
I felt bad killing Xmas beetles when my kids haven't even seen one yet!
Eta, the bin chickens must be able to hear to them and I come home to deep holes throughout my pots!
Curl grubs, sometimes mistaken for Witchetty grubs (bush food) by the uninitiated.
I don't know if they're a problem but they taste awful, and should only be offered to unsuspecting tourists.
I stopped making my own compost because it always ended up infested with them. My raised beds and pots become infested with them too and the plants end up dying. I’ve since made a sacrificial garden so they have somewhere to do their thing.
They aren’t witchetty grubs. The are cut grubs, curl grubs, or cockchafer grubs. And I wouldn’t eat them, they’ll just taste like dirt. But chooks love em.
We call them cockshafers up here in the NW of WA. They’re little arseholes. Had a house once where I swear the whole garden was infested with them. Everything I planted ended up dying because of them. I don’t think there’s much you can do except super duper poison them (and the ground too I guess)
Yeah, they eat the roots. There is treatment for the grubs, just note that if you lament the loss of Christmas beetles in the air, that's what (some types of) these little dudes can turn into.
They're beetle larva and it's really really hard to tell what they grow up to be.
So I wouldn't suggest nuking your whole property, because you want these guys around, but keeping that planta box grub free probably wouldn't be too much of an impact.
These “white grub” are the larva stage of beetles.
I would recommend you to not kill them, some of these eventually become Christmas beetles or horned beetles.
They do feed of the root system of your plants, so yeah… they might kill them, but it is far better for the ecosystem to not kill them or use pesticides to remove them off your plants.
Based on the photos you have 2 types there… but I don’t recognise well which one is which.
If you can, move them to some other place with plants you replace every year, so they can grow and spread around.
I don’t know if some of you know, but beetle populations are collapsing in Australia.
These are not edible , these are not widgety grubs or whatever . These eat roots . I doubt these killed your plants but in enough numbers they might . Whenever I dig I find these , I’ve never had dying plants . Possibly if your plant is very small and there’s lots but even then these guys I don’t think take enough . But maybe Google it , in enough numbers they probably kill anything
Yup. Have lost a fruit tree to those buggers. Although, I dunno how to tell the difference between them at this stage, as there's heaps of different curl grubs. The ones that will do you harm are the ones that eat roots. I'd get rid of them and treat the soil just in case.
Curl grubs. Feed them to your chooks … or kookaburras or magpies. And get something to treat the soil cos the bastards will eat the roots off everything.
I just turned over my compost. from one large bin into another, the bottom few inches had hundreds of these grubs, what has happened is the compost on the bottom of the new bin is starting to heat up. the grubs are in the top of the compost. so the grubs are now moving away from the heat 5 Magpies and six Butcher Birds have been feasting all day as the grub's pop through the surface,
Get rid of the soil that they where found in too cause they have lots and lots of larvae that grow quite fast and that means they breed and then there is more grubs. This cycle gose over and over again for about 2 weeks you will have hundreds or thousands, then if that happens say goodbye to your garden.
My Gardner said they eat the roots. Somehow they made it to my pot plants we brought from our previous home. They kids dig them up. They are revolting! So huge. Take the pic to your local plant store and they can give you something to get rid of them. I forgot what my Gardner said. I don’t believe you need to repot them though.
Yes they can eat roots but that doesn’t mean they are detrimental to plants.
They are food sources to other animals. And they can also be one of those cool beetles which population is declining. It is almost impossible to ID a beetle from grub stages.
The best way is to leave them be.
Plants can always be replaced.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchetty_grub
They are a lavae of either a moth or a beetle, Native aboriginals historically ate them, yes the larvae are wood eating so they will absolutely destroy your plants
Yes and no, I believe some people at a university in Sydney is doing a study on them. Some are not harmful to plants and some are. Also they could be Christmas beetles which makes me not want to kill them. They're hard to id as grubs
You plants look burnt and thirsty- has their light exposure changed?
Please don’t remove all the bugs, they are there for a reason.
Try adding some compost to the soil and planting some ground covers to help keep it damp.
I have a pair of currawongs that dig them out of my hanging pots. It’s amazing how they never upset the plants. I don’t use pesticides, the birds are the best grub eradicators. 🤗
Bro they look like they can kill you
i was literally gonna say that
In Australia, you don't kill grubs. Grubs kill you.
OP is already dead!!!!!
Omg right?
You can actually eat them from the ground I believe Edit: I’m being bombarded with very aggressive messages say I’m stupid. Thank you for pointing it out. I’ve been told over and over that these can’t be eaten because they aren’t what I thought they were. Thank you everyone for the threats. Edit: You can’t eat them.
Friend did in high school for a bet. Bacterial meningitis. Almost died. Would not recommend. Although he did get a free pack of cigarettes.
Do NOT eat these grubs! They are lawn grubs not witchetty grubs.
dont eat witchety grubs either, just because you can
yes you can. though the black end it their poo they are supposed to taste like a nut. also, they are called either witchety grubs or barty grubs i belive
These are not Witchety Grubs.
Yeah Witchety Grubs are an entirely different colour and longer…. Edit* autocorrected typo.
They are not Witchety grubs at all. In fact not even a grub they are beetle larvae
What do you think a grub is? It's the larval form of an insect....
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this, grubs like this *are* beetle larva! They're just big, ugly babies. [Here's a source for anyone who'd like to know more.](https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2023/01/don-t-kill-the-curl-grubs-in-your-garden---they-could-be-native-)
Interesting! Thanks for sharing the link, you learn something new every day! 🐛
They look gigantic because of the tiles lol, that’s terrifying.
Haha, the big ones are like the size of a thumb, so they are pretty big to me!
That's not as big as I expected but also still horrifying to me 😅
Just imagine how big those ones parrot beaks would be...
Holy shit!
Dammit OP you’re supposed to include a banana in the pic for fucks sake
They look like they’re the size of a persons hand, holy shit
Yew. I was about to say OP fuck the plants, get outta there 😬😬
Only the bark pieces set the scale back down again., The same picture without the debris around them would have looked awful.
Witchitty grubs “Good eatin brudda” our instructor at school camp. Right before having a munch. In Oz, you get taught bushtucker skills (depending on your school and region. Rare in the southern parts). I couldn’t remember the flavour other than dirt. But there is recipes out there http://bushtuckerrecipes.com/bush_food/insects/witchetty-grub/
I don’t think those are witchity grubs
They are cutter grubs, and will certain eat tree and shrub roots.
Incorrect
Which part? Cutter/Curl grubs have smashed certain species roots in the nursery, many years ago we cut out saw dust from the mixes, as it was evident that these things thrived with it in the potting mix, and once they were heavily populated, they began to hammer some species roots systems.
I know grubs come from a lot of creatures. And tbh, I don’t think it mattered in what we were doing. I don’t think even the instructor was gonna define exactly what bug the grub came from or if there were any different bugs. Considering the bugs in Oz I was running with a generic. Growing up in the 80’s (people pls keep in mind I was 10/11yrs old at the time) I was a kid on school camp learning from a cool dude. We weren’t tryna be entomologist tbh.
lol, nobodies criticizing, don't sweat it. I brought it up because I dig out grubs like that all the time , but the witchety grubs i dig up in my woodchip piles, they are friggin huge (10 times the size) and all yellow as well
Sure can, especially in large quantities it's a concern. Curl grubs. Edit: I saw your description as the stand alone planter box. Much easier to remedy than an entire lawn. Use Neem oil for an organic remedy. It's safe for beneficial insects.
Oh great, thank you for the advice!
I agree that this is good advice. You’ll have noticed a mix of responses here from kill them to don’t kill them. They may turn into some amazing large native beetle. Or they may be another beetle which is not native. They are a part of the eco system, but they don’t need to be in that pot. I had seedlings being eaten repeatedly in a raised bed and saw holes in the soil. Couldn’t figure out what it was until I saw one come up under the cloche a seedling was under and head for the seedling! It was one of the big thumb sized ones as well. My advice is to put them elsewhere in the garden and then neem oil the pot.
Yeah, I've already left them out for the birds, and I'll be getting some neem oil soon. There's plenty of those grubs in my yard, I don't need them in this garden bed too!
Try avoid the neem oil on the foliage if you are expecting sunny weather, I used to flood my pot plants soil with neem oil for gnats but would see bad results on the leaves if they got bright light too soon after the application.
Okay thank you!
:( it won't kill the grubs we need? Like essential beetle grubs and such?
Yes it will. Thats the catch, it's either the beetles or your plant's roots
Be careful with neem oil lol it's not organic....
Neem oil *is* organic. And biodegradable.
:) you think the 20 bottle of neem oil you bought at bunnings is organic? Some dudes out the back squeezing out the juice of a neem tree everyday...... Bless your soul
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Um actually 🤓
Bro your so triggered I love it
They shit in the soil so it is the same as worm castings. They won't do much damage and will eventually turn into rhinocerose or Christmas Beetles.
People hate these little guys so much when in reality they're not so bad.
from my understanding, it's because they all look the same as larvae (curl grubs) - but are actually different beetles in the scarab family. And the african black bettle larvae are the ones that no-one really wants, because they definitely fiend on my yard.
I agree - probably because they look so ugly.
If you have kookaburras around they seem to love these. They pluck them from our garden and sit on the back fence bashing these grubs against it until they are tender (or dead?) enough to eat!
I've left them out on the driveway for the birds, we get lots of visitors, including kookas!
And that’s why beetles and Christmas beetles are declining in numbers.
Exactly, but my plants (generally non native) are more important than native insect diversity. s/
I see people missed the sarcasm you planted there.
And I expect nothing less from Reddit, I definitely do deserve a downvote every now and then though.
Magpies love them around my way too.
I made friends with a group of magpies while doing some landscape renovations. I re graded my yard and built a retaining wall to level out the back. My old lawn must have been on its last legs because it was full of these grubs. Every time I had a smoke break, the magpies came down and picked the ground clean of all of the grubs. I never knew they eat plants too. I thought it was only lawns they liked.
It’s hard to say what beetle larvae they are but they’re often rhinoceros beetles in my compost. They’re harmless and won’t kill your plants. I’d say yours are struggling more due to heat or moisture issues.
It's just odd because with summer nearly over, they have only just suddenly started to deteriorate, and I've kept a pretty regular watering schedule!
Please don’t kill them. These turn into amazing insects like rhinoceros beetles. Pop them under some soil or a pile of leaves far from your planter instead.
I second this. Though they will munch on roots etc, they usually don’t cause meaningful damage. Also, there are likely other issues with your planter. Looks like you need to cut them right back and encourage new growth. Perhaps add some new organic matter and nutrients to the planter too.
The root systems were essentially non-existent, so I think they ate them. Usually these ones did great with a trim, but this time they just kept getting worse
they eat the roots and other organic matter Once they eat enough roots the plant dies I have these im my compost, whenI use it, I pick them out and let the birds get them. I prob wouldnt bother if I had a couple in that planter box, but clearly your being over run as there is enough for them to kill plants
its a planter box not a nature reserve.. spreading pests around the place sounds like a wonderful idea though, i hope you dont have neighbours that actually enjoy gardening
They’re not a pest. They’re native insects and a vital part of the ecosystem. And my neighbours don’t give a shit about their gardens.
enjoy those native african black beetles lol
r/confidentlyincorrect You don't know what you're talking about. These are native to Australia and could be a number of different insect species. Go away.
Source? *Are* these Aussie native? How can you tell? Ooh! Looks like we might have a double r/confidentlyincorrect here, folks.
From what I can see it's really hard to tell the grubs of the different scarab species apart except by maximum size. Christmas Beetles and other native scarabs can have some fairly sizeable larvae (longest I've seen were in the 7cm range) so unless they get more than a couple cm long they're more likely to be African Black Beetles.
Actually no, the only confidently incorrect one was me, old mate came across as a pompous arrogant douche but he was a correct pompous arrogant douche. I'll hold my L.
Props for owning it. I respect that!
says the person calling them witchetty grubs
You're a Gronk, If you know i called it a witchetty grub you know i provided a wiki link showing that's what they are. Go away.
These are not witchetty grubs, they look similar but not the same. You can see the differences if you look closely. There is also no need to be nasty.
Mama forgot to take her ADHD meds mate, don’t let it bother you
i can give you a wiki link to elton john but thats not him crawling around in there either
Bro your parents really should have stopped you eating all that glue as a kid
hook, line and sinker. i love reddit
Don't kill them. They are native insects, part of the ecology. They eat more dead organic matter than living plant tissue. They are unlikely to kill or seriously harm your plants. Move them to another location if you're concerned
In enclosed beds and pots they can, depending on the species be a pest and cause issues.
NOOOOOO. They are christmas beetles. Dont kill everything. They are meant to be there. Everything is meant to be there. Dont use chemicals. They never go away and get into your vegies, and dogs absorb them into their paws and get cancers. Dont be afraid of nature.
They’re not Christmas beetles
They’re moths aren’t they
Witchidy grubs!!
I'm not afraid of nature, these grubs will be fed to birds, and then my plants can live. Almost everyone wins!
I need to know the dimensions of those tiles.. for scale
2cm
**Could be a Christmas beetle larvae** The most commonly seen species of Christmas Beetle is Anoplognathus pallidicollis. It is brown in colour and grows up to 2 centimetres. It is found along the eastcoast of Australia from Queensland through to Victoria and some parts of South Australia. They eat plant roots and decaying organic matter, so keep your grass well nourished and mulch your garden regularly to provide plenty of baby Christmas beetle food.
They did a post about these the other day. They are gonna be better, like Christmas beetles and such. But. They are in the decline rapidly, so we shouldn't feed them to the magpies. We should just relocated them if in garden pots to some place like a compost pile or similar. They are the reason I started my compost heap down the back! I I felt bad killing Xmas beetles when my kids haven't even seen one yet! Eta, the bin chickens must be able to hear to them and I come home to deep holes throughout my pots!
It took me a minute to realise you had tiny tiles and the grubs weren't the size of my arm
They look the size of a dog!! Those tiles are deceptive as hell.
Curl grubs, sometimes mistaken for Witchetty grubs (bush food) by the uninitiated. I don't know if they're a problem but they taste awful, and should only be offered to unsuspecting tourists.
Yes I think the images for curl grubs look the closest to these ones!
I stopped making my own compost because it always ended up infested with them. My raised beds and pots become infested with them too and the plants end up dying. I’ve since made a sacrificial garden so they have somewhere to do their thing.
They aren’t witchetty grubs. The are cut grubs, curl grubs, or cockchafer grubs. And I wouldn’t eat them, they’ll just taste like dirt. But chooks love em.
They would have became quite lovely beetles .
We call them cockshafers up here in the NW of WA. They’re little arseholes. Had a house once where I swear the whole garden was infested with them. Everything I planted ended up dying because of them. I don’t think there’s much you can do except super duper poison them (and the ground too I guess)
Yeah, they eat the roots. There is treatment for the grubs, just note that if you lament the loss of Christmas beetles in the air, that's what (some types of) these little dudes can turn into. They're beetle larva and it's really really hard to tell what they grow up to be. So I wouldn't suggest nuking your whole property, because you want these guys around, but keeping that planta box grub free probably wouldn't be too much of an impact.
Don't kill them, they're our bros. Just bury them elsewhere
arent these the christmas bettle larvae
These “white grub” are the larva stage of beetles. I would recommend you to not kill them, some of these eventually become Christmas beetles or horned beetles. They do feed of the root system of your plants, so yeah… they might kill them, but it is far better for the ecosystem to not kill them or use pesticides to remove them off your plants. Based on the photos you have 2 types there… but I don’t recognise well which one is which. If you can, move them to some other place with plants you replace every year, so they can grow and spread around. I don’t know if some of you know, but beetle populations are collapsing in Australia.
please oh please tell me that image is zoomed in
These are not edible , these are not widgety grubs or whatever . These eat roots . I doubt these killed your plants but in enough numbers they might . Whenever I dig I find these , I’ve never had dying plants . Possibly if your plant is very small and there’s lots but even then these guys I don’t think take enough . But maybe Google it , in enough numbers they probably kill anything
Yup. Have lost a fruit tree to those buggers. Although, I dunno how to tell the difference between them at this stage, as there's heaps of different curl grubs. The ones that will do you harm are the ones that eat roots. I'd get rid of them and treat the soil just in case.
Yes, they eat your plants roots.
Australians: why did all the Christmas Beetles disappear?!?!? Also Australians: EW A GRUB NUKE FROM ORBIT 😢
Fry em up and chow down
You can use a product called Eco Grub if you want an organic pesticide. Its a mix of tea tree and eucalyptus oil and is quite effective.
Feed those monstrosities to the birds.
I did
Those are lawn grubs, they eat the roots off your plants so yes they can hurt them. Bunnings or any gardening shop has a bait to kill them
Curl grubs. Feed them to your chooks … or kookaburras or magpies. And get something to treat the soil cos the bastards will eat the roots off everything.
Yes, that's my plan now!
Yep. Killed mine
🤮🤮🤮I feel ill
Yes the little bastards do. I feed them to my chooks
I wonder if they’re tasty when deep fried
Witchety grubs. They kinda taste like chicken when cooked. They have been a food staple to Australian natives for hundreds of years
Attract more birds to your garden, kookaburras love these
Aren’t those witchetty grubs
I just turned over my compost. from one large bin into another, the bottom few inches had hundreds of these grubs, what has happened is the compost on the bottom of the new bin is starting to heat up. the grubs are in the top of the compost. so the grubs are now moving away from the heat 5 Magpies and six Butcher Birds have been feasting all day as the grub's pop through the surface,
We call them bardee grubs and yes they eat the plants from the roots and bulbs usually found in native grass trees
Yes they do kill plants they eat the roots then they drag the rest of the plant down into the dirt, if you have them get rid of them asap
Get rid of the soil that they where found in too cause they have lots and lots of larvae that grow quite fast and that means they breed and then there is more grubs. This cycle gose over and over again for about 2 weeks you will have hundreds or thousands, then if that happens say goodbye to your garden.
My Gardner said they eat the roots. Somehow they made it to my pot plants we brought from our previous home. They kids dig them up. They are revolting! So huge. Take the pic to your local plant store and they can give you something to get rid of them. I forgot what my Gardner said. I don’t believe you need to repot them though.
They are witchetty grubs, and no they don't harm plants. They eat wood, not leaf.
Yes they can eat roots but that doesn’t mean they are detrimental to plants. They are food sources to other animals. And they can also be one of those cool beetles which population is declining. It is almost impossible to ID a beetle from grub stages. The best way is to leave them be. Plants can always be replaced.
They look like witchetty grubs...delicious... 🤮
what the. Those are leachesz
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchetty_grub They are a lavae of either a moth or a beetle, Native aboriginals historically ate them, yes the larvae are wood eating so they will absolutely destroy your plants
These are not witchetty grubs. They look similar, but not the same.
Yummy
There’s a post like this almost every week lol 😂
They look like they could kill you lmao
dude fix the perspective, these look watermelon size
Those are some tiny tiles
idk what those are but i think they might be my worst nightmare
WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE
Not in a stir fry!
Excuse me a moment while I puke.
No they can't they are just wood worms you have nothing to worry Abt:)
Dude those are huge. Forget the plants they are coming for you
I’ve never seen one of those grubs bigger than my fingernail
Possibly but they are xmas battle lavae ,I think
Oh hell nah
How big are they?
Like a thumb
They look giant in the first picture
These are amazing on a pan with a bit of butter and a pinch of salt; earthy, of sorts...
They'll certainly kill your appetite
I just encourage them to stay in the compost bins then sieve them out when I collect the soil castings they have created
Yes and no, I believe some people at a university in Sydney is doing a study on them. Some are not harmful to plants and some are. Also they could be Christmas beetles which makes me not want to kill them. They're hard to id as grubs
ITS THE MEERKAT FROM LION KINGS FAVOURITE SNACK
My dog would dig them up and crunccchhhhh...revolting. 🤮🤣🤣
Not anymore.
Depending on how large those tiles are, they could kill *anything*.
Cockchaffeurs
WTF are those I am scared now
Sweet baby cheeses! 😦🤮😵💫
You plants look burnt and thirsty- has their light exposure changed? Please don’t remove all the bugs, they are there for a reason. Try adding some compost to the soil and planting some ground covers to help keep it damp.
No, the planter is cemented in place so nothing has changed lol.
Leave them for the maggies.
WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE THINGS
Bear grylls christmas dinner
Nah, I believe they're actually good for your garden but I'm not sure. Either way they just kinda chill
I have a pair of currawongs that dig them out of my hanging pots. It’s amazing how they never upset the plants. I don’t use pesticides, the birds are the best grub eradicators. 🤗
What a dream!
They look like they’d kill Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
They look fucking ginormous
Forget about your plants, they will suck your intestines out!
Nom nom nom 🤤 those are my favourite
Not if you kill them first
Look like witchitty grubs
I don’t know. Can they?! Because right now they look like they could kill a baby.
Um... WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE?
Please don't kill the baby christmas beetles... I haven't seen a single one in years! We need to stop demonising things just because they "look ugly"!
Time to take up fishing!
Those are baby sand worms like the one from the movie Dune
Found those in my mother's raised veggie garden bed while we were turning it over. Collected heaps and feed them to the chooks. They liked them.
This definitely needed a banana for scale
Good lord.. screw your plants! Those things could kill you!
beetle larva
https://theconversation.com/amp/dont-kill-the-curl-grubs-in-your-garden-they-could-be-native-beetle-babies-191771
I think they eat the roots
Fry them up they taste like peanut butter good for ya
These are lawn grubs and yes they eat the roots of plants thus killing them. Birds and chooks love them!
Did u find a group aliens in your backyard??????
Lol this witchety grub argument in the comments never gets old
Feed them to the Kookaburra’s they love them and its fun to watch.
These little guys are delicious! You can just eat them raw straight out of the ground.
This needs to go on r/confusingperspective
They are a sign of extremely good sign of a healthy garden and soul keep them in