[pigguns]

I found this buried when digging.  It seems pretty dead, but then I may have given it a clonk without knowing it with my trowel    Any ideas allot-mentors ?  It would be about 1 1/2" if straightened out.

[crh75]

Looks like a stag beetle larvae.  I think someone posted a similar picture very recently!

[pdblake]

Chafer grub?

[surbie100]

Looks like a stag beetle larvae.  I think someone posted a similar picture very recently!

I think you mean me - and it doesn't look the same to me.
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=105215.msg1179136#msg1179136 for comparisons.

Sorry, I don't know what the bug is.

[pigguns]

Looks like a stag beetle larvae.  I think someone posted a similar picture very recently!

I googled and I think you're right! However it says they are protected... oops,  May have to 'lose' this thread   
Thanks for swift reply.  I quite like stag beetles.... from a distance.

[crh75]

It was this thread:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=105079.msg1177448#msg1177448

[surbie100]

Ta - apologies for any confusion. 

[jezza]

hi it looks like a chafer grub stag beetle larve have a orangy red head and live in wood [sawn silverbirch up in last month 30 larve in it ] now prohibeted to move till fully mature beattles appear maybe 5years jezza

[Paul Plots]

My money is on a chafer grub too.

Whoppers aren't they!