Now this is a borer!

[hard1all]

Have had a large willow gradually eaten away over the past several years.
This week's winds finally brought down the last of it and it is now just a stump.
These fellows are the culprits.
Does anyone know what they are?

[Sean M]

Well fed.

[fae]

Looks like a witchetty grub, but I don't think they are found in Sydney.

Only one I have seen around here come in lolly packets.

Fiona

[bodhidharma]

Pretty sure it is curl grub. The just took out my front entrance. They are prolific at the moment.

[hard1all]

Thanks
but I've seen hundreds of curl grubs and this is not one

[Guy]

looks like either a witchetty or bardi grub to me-----good fish (murray cod)bait

[g.raft]

Yep looks like a bardi grub to me also. That's about a buck sixties worth! He's a fine specimen. Old man Murray would love to get his lips around him

[jadecuphey87]

Its a bardi grub alright. I

[irish]

G'day.

It's a wood grub, found in willow trees, very good bait for native fish. I have about 300 of them brined in the freezer.

Bardi grubs are not found in trees, but under the ground eating the roots of native gum trees. Eg: Gray,box,yellow gum red gum.

Thay do not eat willow, wattle, mel's

Find a fisherman and sell them to him for $1 each

Regards.
Irish

[Olivecrazy]

dam now thats a grub an i was worried about curl grubs

[hard1all]

thanks Irish
you're the man!

[shibui]

I think these are probably the larvae of one of the longicorn beetles. They are sort of square in cross section and bore through wood for several years before hatching into the adult beetle. I often find them while splitting firewood - the chooks love them)
Witchetty grubs also bore into wood but are more rounded. They are the larvae of large moths.
The bardi grubs I know are even bigger than this one but live underground as Irish has said. They are the larvae of the Wattle Goat Moth - a big grey moth that bangs on the windows in our are during Autumn. (some people call these Bogong moths but real Bogongs are much smaller)