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I buried a snake under my white Mediterranean fig tree aprox 1 year ago, i just found big maggot grubs on the top soil after clearing away the spring clovers(weather is broken in California atm). Do i have something to worry about? My fig tree is 25+ years old and i'd hate to see grubs destroy its root system.
pic exactly related
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>>703517
You saw beetle larvae, most likely chafers of some description. They were likely eating funguses or rotting root nodules near your tree and won't damage it. However, Beetles are crazy diverse and you could have just seen carrion beetle larvae that ate your very decayed snake.
How big were they?
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>>703546
smaller than an inch, but exactly like the larvae in the OP but the spots are white.
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>>703546
this is another one. Also, i found some small white mites in the soil. I took off the entire top layer of foliage and dug out all the clover roots,
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>>703517
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>>703586
FUCK
my entire town has always been infested with the cucksuckers on the right. This is very bad news for me. I'll probably miss this season of figs because i'll have to uproot and debug the soil.
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A lot of grubs are edible.
Go full noonga
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>>703586
fuck me stag beetles are so cool
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Looks like a chafer bettle - bad news dude.
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>>703517
> I buried a snake under a fig tree
Adam, is that you?
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>>703517
Larvae with legs are beetle legs.
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>>703517
The fig tree should be fine. I garden in California. These things are in almost every thing even little 1 gallon pots of plants. Nothing is really affected by them. And the fig tree would have no trouble bouncing back if you hack at it or chop of most of its roots.
Most of the ones here I see in my area are the larvae of figeater beetles.
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>>703586
>Cockchafer
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>>705216
Don't laugh, cockchafers kill your fucking grass.
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>>706938
Going by another thread I hear olive oil works wonders
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>>704197
Kek
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>>703517
Are you coincidentally Jewish?
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>>704748
This also works if you have a flea problem too. Fyi
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>>703517
Imagine one of those things coming out of your anus.
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