Hi anyone know what this is please wriggling away now its been disturbed : Grows on You

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Hi anyone know what this is please wriggling away now its been disturbed!

Looks like a leather-jacket crane-fly larva. Eats roots, mainly grass roots, so a bit of a pest.

27 Apr, 2014

Ok thanks.

27 Apr, 2014

looks like it to me too. I know them as leather jackets.

27 Apr, 2014

Thanks Sbg.

27 Apr, 2014

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