I found a grub that looks like this in a dead oak tree I cut down the wood was solid but it does make my skin crawl a little bit, read where they don’t hurt living trees, but it does make a guy think.

The same ones were in all the red oaks dying around here

These are burr oak I’m cutting, but yes I read where they’re in every species of oak.

Here is one

Nice presentation …..

I would eat that…….

Yup looks the same, extension says they only burrow into dead trees, that’s what I’m going by.

Those grubs probably would make decent fishing bait.

Keith

They are great fish bait. Anytime I see a log down where I'm fishing I will look for them.

Here now fishing is off for at least a month when ice goes out.

I've found them often at work and tried to feed them to fish off customers docks but never had a fish actually take one, sunfish pick a bit but bass ignore them.

Need to takes a stick and push its head though until it comes out of it hindparts. All the goodies are on the inside. Catalpa worms don't get bit either until you run them inside out. Once you do, there isn't any bait which gets bit better than that.

I never knew that Carl, that’s interesting.

Thanks, ill definitely try that.

Nope
That is a grub worm
Lawn pest and will become a June bug when mature

I bet you found it under a piece of decaying wood?

I find those others in oak I am splitting all the time, think they turn into a black beetle that is about an inch long
No idea what name they have

I plant a lot of acorns. It's suprising how many acorns I have to toss b/c they have a white grub inside the acorn.

Found half of a coffee can of those in a box elder one time when I was a kid. Catfish sure liked them.

My chickens fight over them.

This is out of Oregon White Oak.

wws

Wws that oak looks kinda fuzzy and not chipped very well, was it getting bad or does white oak cut like that?

It was a bad log.

wws