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According to the University of Sydney website:

Witchetty grubs live in tunnels in the ground where they feed on sap from the roots of two species of Acacia, commomly known as Wichetty Bush and Small Cooba. The caterpillar grows to an approximate length of about 7cm and pupates inside its tunnel. The adult is a large grey wood moth with finely mottled wings and a wingspan of about 16cms. The adult, a wood moth, posesses degenerate mouthparts and relies completely on the nourishment it obtained as a caterpillar to meet its energy requirements.

It’s lucky I check all the wood before I put it in the fire, or these guys would have been toast.

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That looks like a borer - not a witchetty grub. I could be wrong - but if it’s borer you might want to look for the telltale signs.

Tiny round holes in the wood, borers in chopped wood etc..

Grubs live in soil and roots - never in the wood.

Borer will ruin any and all wood - alive or dead - by eating it’s way through it. Kill them all!!!

pixelkitty typed this on Jul 03 06 at 10:52 pm

Ooh! Lucky we live in a trailer that has aluminium cladding! The borer/grubs arrived in firewood that we got from trees that had fallen down on the side of the road - I wouldn’t be surprised if they are borers (although I thought borers were smaller) as I could see the wood tunnels that they had made in the log…

b:p typed this on Jul 04 06 at 10:26 am