Orrible grubs

[gobbypunk]

Hi guys does anyone have an idea what these are, they love the monkey puzzle found loads of them when debarking it ready for milling

Thanks Mark

[thomasvdb7]

No idea but they love Walnut too. I found them just underneath the bark all over the tree. I'd be interested to know!

[Paddy1000111]

They're fire coloured beetle larva. 

 

The Larvae look like this: 

 

 

 

The adults are much more attractive and look like this:

 

 

Although they are more commonly black. 

[Paul in the woods]

So not horrible at all but useful. "The hatched larvae live under the bark of both dead and living trees, feeding on smaller larvae until they are ready to pupate."

 

From the first photos they looked more like flesh eaters than vegetarians.

 

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Edited December 11, 2020 by Paul in the woods

[Paddy1000111]

In America they're a bit more hardcore. They lick Cantharidin which is a poison off another bug to impress females. Then then ejaculate that poison into the female along with their sperm packet to make the eggs poisonous! 😂

[gobbypunk]

They only seem to burrow into the bark layer not like those even more orrible ones I always find under the bark and into the sapwood on Oak similar looking but the ones in the Oak look like a cross between a ragworm and a big maggot ,I did move as many as I could without killing them .

[fcharlton]

22 hours ago, Paddy1000111 said:

In America they're a bit more hardcore. They lick Cantharidin which is a poison off another bug to impress females. Then then ejaculate that poison into the female along with their sperm packet to make the eggs poisonous! 😂

We can all learn dating secrets from the Americans