What kind of bugs are eating my plants and living in my garden?

more pictures at different angles would help...at first glance they look like fire flies who larvae feed on snails and slugs

Edit: if it doesn' t have the light making organ on it's underside, it will be a soldier beetle, a good guy

I consistently experience truly undesirable while i'm digging and that i chop the worms in a million/2 with the sting of the spade. Or dig up the cicada chrysalises and shatter them with the spade. you're able to be able to desire to recover from it nonetheless. Feed the keeps to be to the birds, then you definitely understand the undesirable computer virus's death wasn't in ineffective....and you have a hell of plenty greater stay bugs in a flourishing backyard than in a disregarded one, so interior the long-term, species extensive...we are doing them a favour.