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title: "Please help!!!!!! I found a few of these crawling around in my soil,…"
description: "Please help!!!!!! I found a few of these crawling around in my soil, should I be concerned?!!!"
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# Please help!!!!!! I found a few of these crawling around in my soil,…

_Postat av Candace den 2025-01-14_

Please help!!!!!! I found a few of these crawling around in my soil, should I be concerned?!!!

![Bilaga 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/L0qfNoDMtyWkmw3lRap0Odr_DRoqOh2s5PvxckdI2jM/sZ773K4CR-ezhxK_AcTYIw.webp?size=large)

## 9 kommentarer

### Wolfen 🐺 kommenterade den 2025-01-14

The left looks like a grub. The right looks like a garden centipede. They aren't harmful to plants, they are insectivorous

#### Candace svarade den 2025-01-14

It curled when I touched it, and the other is making a run for it

#### Sunny svarade den 2025-01-14

🤣🤣🤣🤣

#### Wolfen 🐺 svarade den 2025-01-14

Gotcha, my eyes are still blurry this early 😆

### Sunny kommenterade den 2025-01-14

They are millipedes. They give me the creeps and are harmless to plants. They eat the decaying matter in the soil. They are common. I always check the bottom of the nursery pots before I load them in my car at the nursery. They seem to congregate under the pots.

You can pick them out to get rid of them which is what I do with an extra long tweezer.😁

#### Wolfen 🐺 svarade den 2025-01-14

I don't know why I said centipede. I clearly can't this morning 😆 🙃 😂

#### Sunny svarade den 2025-01-14

😂 They are definitely related!

#### Wolfen 🐺 svarade den 2025-01-15

I just need to not be on here before coffee and eye drops 🤣😂🤣

#### pg svarade den 2025-01-17

This ^ Millipedes…harmless.

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