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Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Xylomya - Xylomya tenthredinoides -

Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 9, 2006
Size: ~12 and 10 mm

Went back the following week and found them paired up.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 12 June, 2006 - 10:36pm
Last updated 25 September, 2008 - 1:33pm

Moved

Moved from Xylomya.

… John R. Maxwell, 25 September, 2008 - 1:33pm

A pair of mating X.tenthredin

A pair of mating X.tenthredinoides

… Miles Zhang, 25 September, 2008 - 12:15pm

Xylomya sp.

This is definitely Xylomya

… Norm Woodley, 8 January, 2007 - 2:25pm

Looks right

This would be the third species in the last month or so. Jeesh. And what an outbreak you are having there.

… Herschel Raney, 12 June, 2006 - 10:51pm

Interestingly, a couple of the other images

have been identified as Xylophagus reflectens. See

and

.
But ours does have the orange abdomen!

… john and jane balaban, 13 June, 2006 - 9:45am

The other one

Was a Xylomya species though from Jim's downed apple tree. Yours looks different from both.

… Herschel Raney, 13 June, 2006 - 3:04pm

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