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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies (Pamphiliidae) » Neurotoma » Cherry Webspinning Sawfly (Neurotoma fasciata)
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Frassy webber insect on black cherry - Neurotoma fasciata
Copyright © 2008 JuneJeffries

Frassy webber insect on black cherry - Neurotoma fasciata
Ralls County, Missouri, USA
July 5, 2008
Size: one inch long
This gregarious insect larva had no prolegs so maybe it is a sawfly or beetle larva. They exuded a dark red liquid from the mouth.
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Contributed by JuneJeffries on 6 July, 2008 - 4:47pm
Last updated 9 November, 2008 - 7:55pm

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Moved from Unidentified Webworms. I am totally unfamiliar with this species, but I agreed with your suggestion that it might be a sawfly; I looked at the webspinning sawfly section to see what larvae in that family look like, and saw that there is a cherry web-spinning sawfly... and I followed the link from the guide page and read that this species is known to exude a red fluid from its mouth when disturbed. And it's a gregarious species. So it seems like a good fit to me; evidently an earlier instar than the ones already in the guide.
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