While gardening today I bumped a branch and with my superior strength it broke it half. Or maybe it was because it was weakened by this
I showed the
When Chris arrived home he pulled it out of the branch.
Entomologists - please identify.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
big grub alert
Long service - where the days pass by in list-ticking, friend-catching, child-homework-supporting and gardening.
While gardening today I bumped a branch and with my superior strength it broke it half. Or maybe it was because it was weakened by this
By the time I had run upstairs to get the camera it had retreated halfway back into the branch so there was not a good glimpse of it's yellow bigger-than-both-my-thumbs body.
I showed thegrub alive looking sausage to a guy who had come over to give a quote on tree pruning. He also took a picture with his phone and said he had never seen anything like it.
When Chris arrived home he pulled it out of the branch.
It does look a bit like he was just about to chuck it on the barbie.
Entomologists - please identify.
While gardening today I bumped a branch and with my superior strength it broke it half. Or maybe it was because it was weakened by this
I showed the
When Chris arrived home he pulled it out of the branch.
Entomologists - please identify.
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That's super gross!
ReplyDeleteI have an idea- freeze it and save it for the next "dare night"- I'm feeling ill just looking at it!
Larva of a Wood Boring Insect - intesecticus borious pineous.
ReplyDeleteHope that narrows it down. Better check out the rest of the tree and give it a prune!
Kerrie
My friend's husband is an entomologist and he says it is the pupa of a wood moth - Pippa
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