Can anyone tell me what this grub is? About 2" long, compost heap is full of them.

 

Witcherdee Grub....common in Australia, and VERY good for your soil. You can eat them too.....lol

 

14 minutes ago, weegee said:

Witcherdee Grub....common in Australia, and VERY good for your soil. You can eat them too.....lol

 

Thank you weegee, BTW believe you have a chap interested in your gear, sorry didn't get back to you on that.

Yours may be coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae. If so, your coconut palms are at high risk of infestation and mortality.  If so, net your compost pile to trap emerging adult beetles from flying to the palm crowns. If no coconut palms in the vicinity, then its less likely to be the beetle. 

 

compare photos and online info Orycetes beetle vs Witchetty moth  

coconut_rhinoceros_beetle__oryctes_108.pdf

2 hours ago, grollies said:

Thank you weegee, BTW believe you have a chap interested in your gear, sorry didn't get back to you on that.

No He has gone....so it's yours for 5K more than you offered.....lol

 

1 hour ago, drtreelove said:

Yours may be coconut rhinoceros beetle larvae. If so, your coconut palms are at high risk of infestation and mortality.  If so, net your compost pile to trap emerging adult beetles from flying to the palm crowns. If no coconut palms in the vicinity, then its less likely to be the beetle. 

 

compare photos and online info Orycetes beetle vs Witchetty moth  

coconut_rhinoceros_beetle__oryctes_108.pdf

Thanks for the info. We do have quite a few coconut palms close-by. I'll check them out tomorrow.

Just now, weegee said:

No He has gone....so it's yours for 5K more than you offered.....lol

 

Since I didn't offer anything 5k is a bargin lol

16 minutes ago, weegee said:

No He has gone....so it's yours for 5K more than you offered.....lol

 

He's not gone yet.

Just now, Hutch68 said:

He's not gone yet.

Give me a PM....Plenty of stuff available in the figure....BUT not on this Topic.

 

3 hours ago, weegee said:

Give me a PM....Plenty of stuff available in the figure....BUT not on this Topic.

 

Wait mate, keep a hold of everything. I'm super busy and nowhere to put things.... hang fire.

Just dig a bit in that compost and if you see brown beetles which look like cockroaches it must be them.

 

They eat roots of plants and even killed some of my tree's.

 

 

17 hours ago, weegee said:

Witcherdee Grub....common in Australia, and VERY good for your soil. You can eat them too.....lol

 

I tried eating these fellas when Iived out there in the 60's, quite tasty.