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Author Message   Eileen  My Garden Journal My Weather Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 10:50 am EST :    At this point I'm just curious. I dug down today to see why a dahlia tuber from the NW didn't come up. Sure enough, all I saw was the skin left. At the tip of the remains was a black beetle, or giant earwig, or....... Dark black and I think I saw pincers. I took tuber and all to my DH who knows some insects and by the time I got to him it had disappeared. (Loose on the yard). Question, I know I don't have enough info to ID this, but does a black creature in a tuber that has been underground, the tuber has been emptied of all but the skin, remind anyone of something. It came from Washington in April, but that may have nothing to do with that. Our Pennsylvania creatures can do well, too. I just have never seen this and perhaps someone has. Eileen Pennsylvania Zone 5   Tony_willis  Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 06:46 am EST :    I would think the tuber had rotted and your beetle had just taken up home in its skin.This often happens with dahlias. Tony_willis - Lancashire, Zone "7"   Eileen  My Garden Journal My Weather Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 - 09:15 am EST :    You are probably right, Tony. I just didn't expect to see that tuber gone or that beetle six inches underground. Eileen Pennsylvania Zone 5

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