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Friend or foe? Wigglers in the plot!

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Jeanieblue

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Friend or foe? Wigglers in the plot!
« on: March 05, 2007, 14:10 »
I've found three wireworms - searched the NET and managed to identify them - collected them up and brought them home to feed the birds!  Understand its usual to find these in neglected grassy areas. But what are the tiny orange skinny wiggly thingies then - cos I always thought they were wireworms?  Thanks for your help.
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muntjac

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Friend or foe? Wigglers in the plot!
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2007, 14:11 »
sound like millipedes to me   lolo
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2007, 14:13 »
Quote from: "Jeanieblue"
I've found three wireworms - searched the NET and managed to identify them - collected them up and brought them home to feed the birds!  Understand its usual to find these in neglected grassy areas. But what are the tiny orange skinny wiggly thingies then - cos I always thought they were wireworms?  Thanks for your help.
Pictures please (or links to WWW pictures)
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milkman

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« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2007, 14:41 »
sounds to me like they could be young centipedes - do they have lots of legs, move as though they're on a mission and wiggle in and out of things? - in which case they are very good - predating on all sorts of garden nasties.  Youngsters may be about 1.5cm long, older centipedes about 5 cm long - they are sort of orangey brown in colour.
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