help identifying mystery larvae

molly22@optusnet.com.au molly22@optusnet.com.au
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:48:02 PDT
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pacific Bulb Society" 
To:"Pacific Bulb Society" 
Cc:
sent:///Mon/, 11 Mar 2013 12:27:14 +0000
Subject:Re: [pbs] help identifying mystery larvae

 Hi,

 Thank you for your replies, which gave me some interesting things to
do 
 a Google image search for.

 To the naked eye these grubs are quite matt, dark brown to black.
This 
 made me think they were dead, but they moved. The flash on my camera 
 gave them a translucent appearance. I have non-flash photos if anyone
is 
 interested.

 They don't have appendages, which many of the larvae I looked at on
the 
 web do.

 Having failed to find anything that looks quite like this, yes it
would 
 have been interesting to seal them in a bag and see what came out
(plot 
 of horror film). I'm not inclined to retrieve them from my 'green
waste 
 bin' even for science.

 As well as the suggestions above, I also looked on Google for the
common 
 insects I see around, centipedes, wood lice.

 Unlike vine weevil (which is the chief reason I was picking my way 
 through pots of lily bulbs) these are not common.

 -- 
 David Pilling
 email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk
 web: http://www.davidpilling.net/

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