Gardening - when weeding today I dug up several red hard cocoon like grubs which had pointed ends which moved!
Question:Does any one know what these horrible little things are? Should I leave them be or should I get rid of them when I find them? What do they turn into? Will they eat my plants?
Answers:
That sounds a lot like a moth larvae! They won't do any harm to your garden. Just leave them where you found them. Please don't kill them!
squish the mothers
Im not sure but they could be bug lavree this is the most likely thing as I have seen them too. I was also reading today and found out this lavree could be a daddy long legs be careful as they do great harm to the soil.
Probably leather jackets which are the pupa of crane flies or daddy long legs,They can do harm to lawns but not much in the flower border.
Were they actually grubs or pupal cases? If they were the pupal case, could be the tomato horm worm ..squish that sucker!! Grubs, if they have little "legs" are the larval form of beetles...and are big eaters. If they are legless grubs, you've got fly larvae called maggots but they are't "hard."
99% sure they are leather Jackets they serve no good use in the garden
However you friendly Blackbirds love them so just leave them out in the open
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