Allotments 4 All

Weeding the path yesterday and found this chap. Very agressive, bit the end of my hoe and wouldn't let go:)

Is it a form of Devils Coach |Man, I am not so good with Uk bugs but it looks similar. XX Jeannine

is it a uk bug

Rootling round a bit in Google brings up the possibility that it's a beetle larvae.

http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/coleop.htm (top row of pictures, second from right)

I'd love to say it's the larva of the Hogweed Bonking Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva ), but it probably isn't

Beetly, but with earwiggy 'pincers'. How long is it?

It's UK bug, North Wales coast in particular and it is around 2 inches long. Looks like a millipede head with a caterpillar back end. Very odd, but this place gets odder and odder the more we delve...

is it the larva of the violet ground beetle, or another speies of ground beetle?

It's the larval stage of a large carnivorous beetle, but I don't know which. Whatever it is, encourage it! Think how many nasties that thing will eat.

OK - so what's a UK bug??

BLEUUUUURCH!

Rove Beetle

Don't know what it is but I also found one yesterday.  Looking at the link posted by DenBee I would say what I found was some form of ground beetle larvae.

Satans henchman?

This could be it.. http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/files/images/ground-beetle-larva.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/node/447/print&h=232&w=504&sz=16&hl=en&start=108&tbnid=j0ZmKwBqb9WF0M:&tbnh=60&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbeetle%2Blarvae.%26start%3D100%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN ..
  Scroll down a tad. :)

I'm with Trixiebelle :o

Friend then? rather than foe?  ???

Friend. It's probably ground beetle, and it's definitely carnivorous.

It's the larval stage of a Mother in Law    ;D