Back in May, during a bout of spring gardening, I wrapped my hands around the end of a rotting stump protruding from the dirt in my backyard and tugged. With a yank, it gave way, opening up a football-sized hole in the ground and exposing a glistening, translucent orb the sickly, pale color of a frostbitten finger. Eww.I hollered for reinforcements and grabbed a stick to poke at the thing, which uncoiled slightly into what appeared to be the mother of all grubs. My neighbor picked it up in his gloved hand, and after his kids admired it a while and I took a video, we dropped it back in the ground and covered it up, in hopes that in a few months some fantastical…
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