evtubbergh
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Identify these larvae?

Hello can anyone help me identify these larvae? I found them in my leaf mulch turning it to compost.

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valley
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Hi, Don't know if they are the same but I see larvae that look like these when I split standing dead trees for firewood. I believe they're a beetle but not sure what kind. They look to large to be a bark beetle.


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evtubbergh
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Ah we figured out that they are Flower Beetles or Pachnoda sinuata

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We have removed them and offered them up as sacrifices to the Hadedas.



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