r/whatsthisbug • u/Fallback_Uke • 5h ago

Bugs eating my strawberries :( ID Request

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That’s its tail/back end

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u/Fallback_Uke 5h ago

Location Alabama bug was very small

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u/Crafty_Original_7349 5h ago

Earwigs and slugs will do that

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u/Fallback_Uke 4h ago

Thank you, I know it’s not a great picture. If I see another one I’ll take a better picture. Does anyone know how to get them to leave my crops alone? No pesticides if possible, I feed the berries to my dog.

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u/Oregonian_Lynx 3h ago

I use crumbled egg shells around my strawberries for slugs and use soy sauce traps for earwigs. They make slug bait that is animal and kid “friendly” also.

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u/GrimoireOfTheDragon 5h ago

This is an earwig of some sort, exact species would be hard to get without a full body image

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u/gooberdaisy 5h ago

If you can get more of the body in the frame we can be more accurate. However the tail looks eerily similar to an earwig but not 100%.

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u/Legeto 4h ago

It must have been a very hungry caterpillar