What Are These Garden Critters?

c64 on 01/02/2021 - 16:56
Last edited 01/02/2021 - 16:57

What are these critters? They are white with 3 black stripes along the length of the body. They like compost. Are they millipedes?

All the millipede images on the search engines seem to be big black ones (which I occasionally come across at the bottom of leaf piles), but these are much smaller, ~2-3cm.

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  • geek001 on 01/02/2021 - 17:02

    I guess lawn grubs?

  • mapax on 01/02/2021 - 17:56
    +2

    More than 6 legs, and black and white? It’s gotta be a whitetail spider…

    Seriously though, it looks like some kind of millipede. It’s worth mentioning I didn’t exactly get good marks for my insect identification class.

    • pegaxs on 01/02/2021 - 18:31

      The default is always “white tail”

    • endotherm on 01/02/2021 - 20:01
      -1

      *entomology class

    • ChocStrawberries on 01/02/2021 - 21:27
      +1

      Damn, beat me to it…

  • pegaxs on 01/02/2021 - 18:32

    My guess is millipede…

    If they are tiny and were under something, like a pot or leaf litter, they may not have gotten their colour yet.

    • c64 on 02/02/2021 - 11:50

      I'm guessing that is about as big as they get. I never find any large ones of any colour nearby.

  • Dungeon Master on 01/02/2021 - 18:46

    Possibly a zebra millipede.
    See if they glow under a UV light!

    • pegaxs on 01/02/2021 - 19:06
      +1

      Or maybe this one

      • Dungeon Master on 01/02/2021 - 19:11

        Yes, they could even be the same species because I think that Hawaiian one glows too.
        Its hard to tell though when so many are called either zebra or striped.

  • cynicalmike on 01/02/2021 - 20:29
    +1

    the first sequence of a human centipede

  • ECE on 02/02/2021 - 08:28

    Just ask nicely. It will give its name to you 😷

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