My compost is full of fat curly maggots??
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hoodat
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The fruit eating part of the june bug family uses compost heaps to mature grubs. Our local fig beetle hatches grubs as big as my thumb. Makes me wish I had chickens. I always viewed them as beneficial in a compost heap since they help break things down. I thought at first they might be black soldier fly larvae till you said they were curled.
wifezilla
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Whenever someone says their yard is too small I have to laugh. I have 9 ducks and 4 quail on .167th of an acre...and most of that is covered in house, garage and shed 
You can always get a few silkies...they don't take up much space!
You can always get a few silkies...they don't take up much space!
momofdrew
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I have just under an 1/2 acre and have 7 silkies running around taking care of japanese bettle,s cucumber bettles, aparagas bettles, ticks, cinch bugs, pill bugs, earwhigs, grass hoppers, millipeds, snails, slugs, and some things I dont know what the names are but if it moves they eat it... they will dig in my gardens and eat seeds I dont have as many weeds since they came to roost in my yard...and they are fun to watch they are little bantum fuzz butts... and as a bonus I get the eggs which are yummy...
i_am2bz
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I turned one of my compost piles yesterday & found bunches of big fat grubs, too. I was going to pick them out & give the chickies a treat, then I thought about hoodat's comment that they might be more useful where they are, so I left 'em. Sorry chickies! 
hoodat
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I have a typical tiny SoCal suburban back yard yet I manage to grow all the veggies I and two neighbors can eat plus the greens for meat rabbits.wifezilla said:Whenever someone says their yard is too small I have to laugh. I have 9 ducks and 4 quail on .167th of an acre...and most of that is covered in house, garage and shed
You can always get a few silkies...they don't take up much space!
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Sounds like japanese beetle grubs
HunkieDorie23
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My compost pile is within throwing distance of my chicken so they get all mine. When I turn my pile they line up at the fence because they know it's going to be a good day. Anyway, chickens are birds.... yes. Pick them out and I don't know put them in a feeder or a pan of some type and see if the birds like them as much as the chickens. I use a lot of grass in my compost and I do not need japanese beetles or most of the others either.
