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Title: wireworm ??
Post by: grotbag on April 29, 2009, 19:17:00
wot is this  please ? (http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/popgrot/moto_0078.jpg)
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Post by: SPUDLY on April 29, 2009, 19:33:17
Can't tell very well from the pic. Google Wireworm and then images.
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Post by: grotbag on April 29, 2009, 19:39:19
done that ,but still not sure
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Post by: Baccy Man on April 29, 2009, 20:10:57
Difficult to tell from the picture but it looks more like a yellow centipede either Halophilus Subterraneus or Necrophloeophagus Longicornis.
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Post by: davyw1 on April 29, 2009, 20:52:29
It could be just a normal earth worm as the do come in various coulors have a google at that.
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Post by: tata on April 30, 2009, 20:58:17
I think its a normal earthworm.
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Post by: Unwashed on April 30, 2009, 21:21:15
Wireworms are insects so you should see six legs, but I see none.  I'd guess it was some kind of roundworm/nematode.  What's the scale?  Is it ~1mm diameter?
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Post by: davyw1 on May 01, 2009, 14:33:31
Quote from: Unwashed on April 30, 2009, 21:21:15
Wireworms are insects so you should see six legs, but I see none.  I'd guess it was some kind of roundworm/nematode.  What's the scale?  Is it ~1mm diameter?

Wire worm comes from the Click Beetle the worm has no legs

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Post by: Unwashed on May 01, 2009, 19:59:56
It's a fair point, you certainly can't see the legs on what is definitely a wireworm in your photo, but they do do have legs, it's just you'd have to look from the side to see them.

(http://ag.udel.edu/extension/IPM/images/pests/wireworm3.jpg)
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Post by: davyw1 on May 01, 2009, 20:18:04
I stand corrected sir
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Post by: staris on May 01, 2009, 20:28:09
yep they definatly have legs i should know i'm killing the little blighters everyday.