found a red cacoon type bug/grub in the soil. live in IL. any idea as to what it is?

Question

when touched, abdomen moves in a circlular motion as if it it trying to sting. Size is about an inch long. any ideas?

Answer 1

Sounds like it might be a tomato hornworm chrysalis. They are NEAT!

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/tomato.html

If not that, it is probably from another type of moth that uses the ground to hibernate into while it changes from larva (caterpillar) to pupa and then to adult.

Answer 2

I really believe that it is a cutworm pupae. Although this site is for Colorado, in general, all cutworm pupae are fairly indistinguishable from one another and can be found across the US. http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05597.html The next site is from British Columbia and once again, you will see that the pupae are very similar. http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/bertha.htm In any case, cutworms are very destructive pests from turf, to apples, to corn, to tobacco. I used to live in Southern IL when I was a kid, and I remember digging in the gound and finding them. I thought they were pretty neat! I now live in SE Missouri, and we had an outbreak of these little beasties a few years back, and we lost most of our hay crop for our cattle.

Answer 3

you need to do a pH try of the soil , you need to have the skill to get a finding out kit out of your backyard centre. no longer a hundred% specific yet i think of conifers like acidic soil, you may decrease the acidity by way of introducing different ingredients to it. is going devoid of asserting that different flowers like different pH stages so which you ll ought to examine the labels

Answer 4

That woudl be a cecada (spelling)?