HI folks,
With the thoughts of Cactoblastis
larvae fresh in my mind from another thread I was inspecting my plants
when I noticed one of my random Trichocereus cuttings had, what looked like
your standard rot at its base. I wasn't really surprised as I have
been watering long into winter with no problems - I’m still getting
daytime temps into the mid thirties and everything dries out pretty quick - anyway
with further inspection I noticed a little black grub (not actually that
little) the following pic is showing 7 of these little critters
that were feeding on what was a 2 x 3 inch cutting given to me a while
ago.
Anyone have any ideas what they are? This
cutting was sitting in a smallish pot in my greenhouse - do you
think there might be more grubs in other pots?
The good of this story is I saved a little pup