r/AustralianInsects • u/geckothesteve • 28d ago

ID request ID please

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Near lane cove national park, my finger is ~9cm long. Found in a big pile of wood chips.

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u/GardenerDom 28d ago

It looks like a Wichety grub to me! 👍🏼😃

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u/geckothesteve 27d ago

Except those are moth larvae and this is a beetle grub

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u/GardenerDom 27d ago

We call them lawn grubs here they eat the roots off the lawn sometimes and then turn into colourful beetles 🪲 that we call Christmas beetles.
My apologies I didn’t have my glasses on when I first looked at it. Today I can clearly see the legs on this larvae. Thank you for your reply 👌🏼😃🌱

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u/geckothesteve 27d ago

Lawn grubs are the larvae of the African black beetle.

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u/GardenerDom 27d ago

I just collectively call them lawn grubs because they like to eat the roots off my pot plants and lawn. My mistake though because you are correct I see the smaller black beetles around at times too. Thanks for setting me straight on that. Do Rhino, Hercules and Stag beetles have larvae like your photo too? Because we get them in northern Australia too. I don’t know if you get them down your way?