Can you identify this grub?

[flowerofshona]

I found over 70 maybug grubs like that in one growbag last year !!! it was one i had put outside at the end of the season and never go around to putting on the compost heap !

[Plot17B]

Hello!
OK, been digging around and found a comment that the chafer larvae is just over half an inch long wheras the Scarab can be massive. Which matches murraymint's piccie above.

Here's a whole website for Scarabs and how to breeding them ( )
Family Scarabaeidae - Scarab beetle breeding manual (page 5) The pictures which matter are at the bottom of the page. For those with a strong constitution, check out figure 36. How big is that beastie??

And here's the specific page from a link I put above mentioning the ickle size of the Chafer Chafer Survey

So I've now got a tenner on Scarab - just coz of the small chafer larvae size really. We need an entomologist amongst us.
P17B

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Then I guess I must have had a scarab grub too as mine was definately nearer 2 inches...although (!) my trusty Vegetable Expert book gives the Chaffer at over 1"...perhaps I just don't want to think I fed a friendly grub to my greedy robin...

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omg!! I have just looked at the final picture of your link Plot17B...terrifying!!

[Nicos]

Urrrmmm...I WAS looking forward to eating a chocolate creamed egg tonight............


...not very hungry now after seeing fig 36

...thanks for helping the diet along!!!!