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slimy caterpillar - Caliroa cerasi
Copyright © 2006 April

slimy caterpillar - Caliroa cerasi
Medina County, Ohio, USA
i don't even know how i realized this thing was living. its so tiny and there are many of them on the same bush. they look like a tiny black slug but they have gold-ish colored sticky feet underneath them like many caterpillars do.

i'd be stunned if anyone can ID it. my macro setting isn't good enough to get a close up.
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Contributed by April on 19 September, 2006 - 9:12pm
Last updated 8 May, 2008 - 9:38am

"Pear Slug"...
That is a "Pear Slug", the larvae of the Pear Sawfly (Caliroa cerasi).
… Michael Garcia, 20 September, 2006 - 10:02am login or register to post comments

 
thank you so much.
thank you so much.
… April, 20 September, 2006 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

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