Digging holes is nothing new for gardeners. Sometimes we meet up with something unusual. Old toys, rocks, buried treasure and bugs or to be more precise GRUBS!! GIANT GRUBS!! The kind waiting for something munch worthy to be planted. I was digging a hole for some daylilies, I just bought some recently, when I happened across some rather big grubs. The kind that bite the end off your garden trowel. I looked around to see if anything with a 2 foot wingspan was lurking in the shadows before I scooped these plant root devouring grubbies up for a portrait. Picture time!! ( photo / image / picture from Jerry Sullivan's Garden ) Hmmm...I wonder if the turkey will eat them? Jerry
Gross! I have dug up a lot of grubs this year as well. I saved some for a friends Bearded Dragon once ... yum!
Jerry, Looks like Japanese beetle grubs. Check out the photos on this link: http://www.google.com/search?q=japanese ... 74&bih=544
Down here we have June Bugs - Phyllophaga crinita, the fancy Japanese Beetle hadn't shown up down here until about 15 years ago...according to Texas A&M they could be from any number of other beetles too - Cyclocephala immaculata, Cotinis nitida or Popillia japonica, among others ....depending on what part of the country or world you live in. When I find them I either throw them out into the street for the birds to eat or the hot pavement to bake or gather them up and place in a 'fruit feeder' I have for the birds. Our neighbors use enough chemicals that there aren't as many June Bugs hanging around the out door lights in Spring as there used to be and the ones that are around I can use household bug spray on.
