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title: "Can anyone please tell me what these worms are? Who are their…"
description: "Can anyone please tell me what these worms are? Who are their parents???"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems 🇺🇸"
author: "Jean"
published: "2024-09-20T22:24:38.200687Z"
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# Can anyone please tell me what these worms are? Who are their…

_Postat av Jean den 2024-09-20_

Can anyone please tell me what these worms are?  
Who are their parents???

![Bilaga 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/AwdfxsukH_jINv7INtJhlGmyv7pVLc61gU6fWenm88s/e6_-vK-kQ2yp5TtSF4C-Hg.webp?size=large)

## 10 kommentarer

### Magneticgarden\_ kommenterade den 2024-09-20

They kinda look like grubs? Where is the soil from?

#### Jean svarade den 2024-09-20

I bought the soil from a stall. To further help identify what type of pests these are, I’m sharing a photo that I’ve taken previously.  
These are dark red pupa in other plants that I found among wriggling white larvae. 🤢☠️

![Bilaga 1 av 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/AwdfxsukH_jINv7INtJhlGmyv7pVLc61gU6fWenm88s/PHrssTOXS9evxsGN065x3g.webp?size=large)

#### Magneticgarden\_ svarade den 2024-09-21

Definitely look like a type of beetle

### Kades kommenterade den 2024-09-20

I’m sorry this is not helpful but I’d have to burn my house down if I found this… 😅

#### Jean svarade den 2024-09-20

Once upon a time, if I found these worms \& I had to personally handle them, I might just burn my house down \& never engage in gardening again! 🐛☠️🪱  
Now, with all the worms that I’ve had to deal with, gardening has been quite an effective form of exposure therapy in overcoming my phobia of worms!

#### Kades svarade den 2024-09-20

You’re braver than me 😅 I can’t even walk on the sidewalk when it rains

### StormLover kommenterade den 2024-09-21

Jean and Kades... I am right there with you both! I am careful when I walk on sidewalk on a rainy day... and I have an extreme phobia... I love plants, but my husband is the one who plants them... 2 wks ago had a nervous break down when I saw a small I don't know what kind of bug/worm it was, and I screamed like if somebody was stabbing me, everyone came out to see who was getting killed.... right in front of my father in law... I laugh-cried my way from the porch through the house to the other entrance.. i would have chopped my finger had there been a knife.. the horror! 🙃 I guess hers still how for me if you overcame your phobia! 😶‍🌫️

#### Jean svarade den 2024-09-21

Yes, there is hope to potentially overcome worm phobia! Snap some gloves on, grab a scooper and hold your heart steady with prayers - Rinse and repeat. 😅

#### Jean svarade den 2024-09-21

P.S. Your story was amusing \& horrifying! I’m glad that your father-in-law wasn’t half-frightened to death and that your family had a good laugh about it. 😂

### StormLover kommenterade den 2024-09-21

😆... they'll never let it goooo! Lol... my husband bought me gloves, long and short ones... long ones are what I can do but I still can't stick a finger to the soul... sticks are my friend... BTW, it was a snail, per my husband. 🤢🤮

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