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CaptMicha
Brookeville, MD (Zone 7a)
June 22, 2006 11:44 PM Post #2421938
| I found these growing on my soloman's seal. They remind me of zebra longwing but the color's wrong and so is the host plant... 
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CaptMicha
Brookeville, MD (Zone 7a)
June 22, 2006 11:44 PM Post #2421942
| They were a bright orange, they look translucent here b/c I was shooting towards the sky. |
trackinsand
mid central, FL (Zone 9a)
June 23, 2006 2:30 AM Post #2422514
| looks like some kind of sawfly to me. |
croclover
Lake Forest, CA (Zone 10a)
June 23, 2006 3:40 AM Post #2422806
| Don't sawflies make smaller round holes? |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
June 23, 2006 4:56 AM Post #2423013
| I agree with trackin.
http://www.bluewisteria.co.uk/bluewisteria.html?pest/sawfly...
Here's a great site, full of sawfly photos...
http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=sawfly&search=Se...
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croclover
Lake Forest, CA (Zone 10a)
June 23, 2006 4:59 AM Post #2423019
| Yikes! I think you guys are right! Great link ceejay!
I have sawflys on my roses right now. I guess I caught them before they started chewing bigger holes. |
trackinsand
mid central, FL (Zone 9a)
June 23, 2006 10:51 AM Post #2423259
| some sawflys skeletonize the whole leaf, others chew holes. |
CaptMicha
Brookeville, MD (Zone 7a)
June 23, 2006 6:08 PM Post #2424655
| Ugh! I thought they might be something special... How do you distinguish between lepidotera larvae and sawfly larvae? |
trackinsand
mid central, FL (Zone 9a)
June 23, 2006 6:21 PM Post #2424699
| ceejay would be better qualified to answer that question, but these guys always seem a little translucent to me and dotted and they have those little black noses, although i'm sure some may not have. |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
June 23, 2006 11:13 PM Post #2425574
| Oh gosh. They just look like sawflies. There are some borers that look similar, but they are inside the plant. Those heads, and the shape of the bodies... I suppose if you want to get real technical, lepidoptera have 3 to 5 pairs of prolegs, and sawflies have 6 to 8, but I sure couldn't see them in the photo! LOL
Many sawflies have a peculiar defensive posture: they'll arch their rear end in an attempt to scare the predator away. Many also feed in groups. That's sort of a clue too...for in the future. |
