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Eriocampa ovata
White grub. :)))))) I have never ever seen something like this before! :)))))
on the hazelnut-tree leaves.
If you also have pictures of sawflies, wasps and their grubs and you upload you photos also on Flickr, you are very welcome to join my Flickr group "Sawflies and wasps of the world" :) http://www.flickr.com/groups/2285555@N25...
Spotted on Sep 6, 2013
Submitted on Sep 6, 2013
21 Comments
so let's work on Jopy's caterpillar/larva! :)
Yea, I guess we will find a few more before they hide totally.
@Jopy, That caterpillar needs an ID, if we three combine our brains then we will get an ID for sure :)
Thank you! :)
It is high time to do that! :) So many caterpillars and larvae have already pupated!!!
I even took one pupae with me home :D let's see what it will become :)
P.S. there are so many hazelnut-trees in the forest (the forest where I'm going) and I checked soooo many in a search for caterpillars and larvae, but I found these only on one of them..
wonderful, you became an expert for fluffy spottings :) and thanks, faredin, for link about difference between larvae a caterpillars...gave me the right direction to search ID for mine caterpillar http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/229... :D
Perfect job! The video is amazing, now you made me go out and find them :). I have the hazelnut tree in the garden but haven't seen them.
Finally, I uploaded the video! :)
Thank you again! :))
I have seen sawfly larva and I also have a spotting of it which had exactly the same head and eye but in this link you can read a nice explanation how to see the difference between the caterpillar and sawfly larva: http://insects.about.com/od/identifyanin...
How can you tell that??
In Denmark we have only this species so must be the same also for Latvija. On the first picture it's visible that it wasn't caterpillar. I have seen the adults many times but never the larva.
while I was writing an answer you already found it yourself :D
Easy peasy - they look totally different! :)
haha, just kidding, we don't have that other species in my country (at least I couldn't find it, but this one even has a latvian name)! :)
OK, your decision should be right since I can not find a record of the second species in Europe. So congrats on this amazing spotting.
Yes, it's crazy to think they will become sawflies. How did you decide it's this species and not E. juglanids?
But I'm still surprised that these are sawflies! :D :)))
and you are right about one of the option! :)))
You are definitely a caterpillar expert now! :))
Yes, it's definitely that genus but won't be able to find the species. There are two good options, one is Eriocampa ovata and the other is E. juglandis.
I found the species! :)))
And thank you very, very, very much!!!!! :)))))) (and that was fast, how did you do that? :D)
ō, they look the same!!!!
sawflies?! O_o
Could it be this ones: http://bugguide.net/node/view/310295
:D
I though the same! :D
But they are very, very healthy! :)
I will upload a small video, but it will take a lot of time :D
I'm trying to find, no success yet..
NOOOOOO, are you kidding me???? This one wins all, you rock. I would guess that those were fungi infested caterpillars but they look pretty healthy so lets see what species they are.