found a giant grub

[Galapoheros]

Probably Strategus aloeus, it's the only big beetle I've found in the area.

 

[beetleman]

yep, proberly is,we have those aswell down here in fla.

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

It doesn't look like Dynastes and certainly not Megasoma.

 

[Galapoheros]

I might as well throw these in too, been growing kind of slow. I guess I've had them since October, found them in Pecan wood. Some kind of Longhorn? What sp, anybody know?

 

[Matt K]

The first one could be a Cotinis sp. too. Thier grubs get unusually large for the beetle...

 

[Richard McJimsey]

Probably Strategus aloeus, it's the only big beetle I've found in the area.

That is freaking AWESOME!!
Can I get some?

 

[Galapoheros]

I only found one

, I think because it's been so dry here.

 

[loxoscelesfear]

looks like a Dynastes tityus to me. Was it found in northern TX?

 

[Galapoheros]

I found it about 10 miles out of Bryan Tx. Possibly but probably not D tityus. The grubs of the two species look the same from what I've heard. I've been bug hunting on this same piece of property I found the grub on for 30 years and have never seen D. tityus there. I've found a bunch of Strategus aloeus there over the years though, and I also found aloeus body parts in the log. It'd be a nice surprise though.

 

[loxoscelesfear]

Strategus aloeus is likely the culprit. I have raised tityus, and the grubs look very similar. I plan on hitting TX this June. Are aloeus flying @ that time? As for your grub, keep it!! You'll know the identity soon enough. But be forewarned, it took my tityus grubs 2 years to change over.

 

[Galapoheros]

I still have it. I'm real bad about timelines, it might be June when they fly around, don't remember. There have been a few years out of the past 20 or 30 that I can remember seeing pretty many of them around the streetlights around Bryan, San Marcos too where I lived for a while. I mean not a whole lot but maybe two or three to a light, ...to me, that's a lot since I don't see them a lot. I bet cental east tx and north east tx might be a good place since there are a lot of hardwoods around there.

 

[loxoscelesfear]

i'll be farther south, but i will certainly be looking

 

[GiantVinegaroon]

I might as well throw these in too, been growing kind of slow. I guess I've had them since October, found them in Pecan wood. Some kind of Longhorn? What sp, anybody know?

Definitely some kind of longhorn. They're pretty big...hopefully they're not Anoplophora glabripennis.

 

[loxoscelesfear]

i second longhorn. don't let Bear Grylls get ahold of them, he'll eat them

 

[GiantVinegaroon]

i second longhorn. don't let Bear Grylls get ahold of them, he'll eat them

i learned this the hard way when he knocked on my door asking to use the bathroom. when e left, i checked my bug room...and all my larvae were gone!

 

[BiologicalJewels]

the grub of Anoplophora glabripennis :

Larva
The larva is a legless grub up to 50 mm long when fully grown. It is creamy white in colour, with a chitinized brown mark on the prothorax.

Here is some pics. Not it in my opinion, but I could be wrong.

http://www.ci.worcester.ma.us/cmo/pdf/ALBPresentation.pdf

 

[Galapoheros]

My hunch from the start is that they are prob Giant Root Borer(Orthosoma brunneum) grubs, just because I've found several over the years here in Texas. Please don't think I know all these sci names, I always have to look them up lol. I've seen a lot of smaller species though. I think longhorn beetle grubs pretty much have the same look to them. Also, I didn't think these had legs until I looked at the pic I took closer. Look at the first pic and the one on the bottom of the pic, I see tiny legs!, HA, man they are little!

 

[LeilaNami]

I found tons of those when we dug up the flower bed. I just relocated them though.

 

[Galapoheros]

Oh yeeeaaaah?, which ones? The long skinny ones or the curled up ones?

 

[LeilaNami]

Oh yeeeaaaah?, which ones? The long skinny ones or the curled up ones?

The curled up ones. Found a lot but didn't know what they were