A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Small brown sawfly
See another species here http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/879...
One of the most modern (recently evolved) order of insects is the Hymenoptera order. They share two pairs of transparent wings and have complete metamorphosis (compared with, say, the ancient order of dragonflies that have incomplete metamorphosis and no pupa stage). Hymenoptera include sawflies, ants, bees and wasps. Sawflies differ from wasps in not having a sting and not having a narrow waist.
2 Comments
I'm still looking argybee. I did see the hugging larvae on the same tree and suspect some relatedness based on the similarity of both stages to the steelblue sawfly.
Nice clear shots martin. No scientific name for this yet?.