What is This HUGE Grub???

[Alan L.]

Never seen one that long but looks just like what we always called a grub worm As a kid I used to dig for red worms for fishing. You'd almost always get a big ole juicy grub worm. It was a treat for fishing.

Anyway, I don't know. Just remembering back when....

The grub worms around here (that turn into June bugs) are only about an inch or so long. That sucker there is big.

 

[livincountry]

We've cut trees down and always find those in the rotted sections in the core of the tree at trunk level. Mostly old trees 2'+ in caliber. Wood Grub.

 

[3RRL]

Yeah, this one was in the roots of a big Oak when I was digging out the stump. I saw the links and tend to think it's a wood grub of some type. Man, that sucker is big. I saved it for my 11 year old son who just loves bugs. He played with it and checked it out for hours. It's size is just amazing.

 

[Timber]

This thread made my head itchy

 

[HomeBrew2]

This thread made my head itchy

I'm sure it's just ME but, never in a jillion years would I have expected THAT comment I'll make a point of tuning into Paul Harvey tomorrow

 

[Pilot]

In conifers we call them flat headed wood borers. They turn into beetles. There are a very number of species and are hard to identify exactly, but borer species are generally specific for each species of trees.

In our area they attack Douglas-firs that have been weakened by drought or some other problem.

Richard Scott
Retired Forester

 

[Bob_Young]

Yeah, wood grub. We have them back east, just not quite so big. But your Sequoias are bigger than anything we got, so you probably need bigger wood grubs....

Anyway, I've heard they make great fish bait. Looks like the kind of thing a fish would chow down on. So feed 'em to the fish, then eat the fish. Sounds like a better plan than anything posted so far.

Some people are in too big a hurry to head for the dinner table. When they start licking their chops over the fish bait, you know there's a problem.
Bob

 

[4720 OWNER]

If it is green, could be gypsy moth, i think they are getting kind of rare, about a 5" wing span and fairly beautiful. In my book they rank right up there with yellow and black garden spiders. Cute and have a purpose.