Grubs from my yard.

I had the hardest time trying to photograph this grub, it was really on the move.

Here are a couple more pics.

Sorry about the quality of the photos.

After I did all that hard work hunting for grubs in my yard, I remembered that I saw some huge ones when my neighbor showed me his compost pile.

I went over there and he was more than happy to let me turn it over and now I have many grubs and pupae of a couple different species. Also, I just brought the material that they were found in to raise them. All I had to do was walk across the street and dig. I hope using the compost works in captivity, and it shall be fun to have a couple of surprises as far as species.

One of the species is a pretty rusty colored flower beetle, there were a couple adults in the compost. I will post the species name as soon as I figure out what it is.

Nice find. I wish I live in an area where I could find beetle grubs in garden compost. Where I live there isn't much of that at all.

Nice find!

The larva in the picture look a lot like the sugarcane beetle larvae that I raised 2 years ago.

Lucanus said:

Nice find!

The larva in the picture look a lot like the sugarcane beetle larvae that I raised 2 years ago.

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Thanks, that may confirm what I suspected because we get alot of those. They are a fun beetle and my daughter's first insect love. I like how they stridulate when they are disturbed, and I can't help but save them from Big headed ants, when they are under attack they stridulate like crazy.

My daughter started out by finding Sugarcane beetles and Scarlet millipedes on our porch when she was around 18 months old. I found her picking them up and trying to kiss them! Not knowing much about arthropods, I looked the creatures up online to see if they could harm her and developed an interest myself. We kept the beetles, pedes, and Pycnoscelus surinamensis in a container with the soil we found them in when they weren't walking about on our porch, and fed them fruits and veggies.

She will be 6 this month and now we keep many various arthropods.

I have since taught my daughter that bugs don't like kisses.

I recently found a few of these larvae in the yard. Are they click beetle larvae?