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Symphyta
Black head, black stripes, green translucent.
Fell out of live oak tree.
Larvae have six pairs of prolegs. Caterpillars can have 7 or 5 or less. Adults don't have a waist like most wasps. Females have sawlike ovipositor for cutting into plant tissue to deposit their eggs.
Spotted on Aug 25, 2020
Submitted on Aug 28, 2020
2 Comments
Thank you ForestDragon for all the help. I will be going through these spottings as I have time. So many mysteries solved.
Although this looks like a caterpillar, it is actually a Sawfly larva (a type of wasp). Unfortunately, many of them are nearly impossible to identify. Here is a link that may help: https://bugguide.net/node/view/112