Those poor yucky beasts are beetle grubs, often some kind of scarab and they are normally found in compost heaps, where they do a great job of chewing up hard bits like wood. Unfortunately they do bite plant roots so they are a problem in pots
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Hi @nikv !
Indeed, my husband said that we should put them in containers and let them grow into bugs or beetle to know their variety, but I always felt bad if I see them crawling. We have had so much problem with them in our former garden because they caused so much damage to our pine hedge, 3 or 4 trees got completely dry and the front concrete pots fronting my kitchen that also have young pines died because of the attack. We were wondering why they dried off and found out that the soil was infested with them... So we had to change the soil and got new plants.
According to researches, one can identify whether the bug is a good or a bad one depending on how they land on a surface. I always have problems with bugs by experience when a small bug got into my ear in the middle of the night during sleep... so painful. My dad sprayed an insect spray in my ear and the bug came out, the more painful because it was crawling on my eardrums to get out so fast from my ear. It was a nightmare so I developed a phobia and always cover my ear when sleeping.
Ugh! Sorry that happened to you
Thanks and Happy Weekend!