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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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Sawfly Larva? - Neurotoma fasciata
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Sawfly Larva? - Neurotoma fasciata
Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
August 31, 2005
There were a few of these nest of larva in a small cherry sapling. Are these sawfly larva, and if they are, any guess on genus?
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Contributed by tom murray on 1 September, 2005 - 8:23pm
Last updated 8 July, 2006 - 2:52pm

The leaves look more like poplar
to us than cherry, so we were wondering if these might be related to the poplar tentmaker, Clostera inclusa, but can't find any images or descriptions of the early instars. Wagner does mention C. strigosus which he says lacks the middorsal knobs and he says there are five species of Clostera occuring in eastern Canada. Will try to find out more. Maybe Tony Thomas will know more.
… john and jane balaban, 20 December, 2005 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

 
These larvae look
too shiny to be a Clostera sp. My guess would be a Webspinning Sawfly, Family Pamphiliidae
… Tony-2, 23 December, 2005 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Moved
It looks a bit like this Pamphiliidae larva, just a different color. It also looks a lot like Troy's pictures on this page.
… tom murray, 23 December, 2005 - 10:26pm login or register to post comments

 
poplar
Oops, that's poplar alright. I was finding these quite a few times, in nests just like this. A tentmaker caterpillar would make sense.
… tom murray, 21 December, 2005 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

I don't know what they are
but my gut says not sawfly?
… Lynette Schimming, 2 September, 2005 - 5:52am login or register to post comments

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