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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae) » Blennocampinae » Blennocampini » Monophadnoides » Raspberry Sawfly (Monophadnoides rubi)
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Spiny Caterpillar - Monophadnoides rubi
Copyright © 2007 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Spiny Caterpillar - Monophadnoides rubi
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 24, 2007
Size: 1/2 inch approx
There was a group of these eating the blackberry bush down to the "bone". They sort of remind me of sawfly larvae....
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 26 May, 2007 - 9:15am
Last updated 10 November, 2009 - 5:48pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Sawfly Larvae.
… Beatriz Moisset, 10 November, 2009 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

Tenthredinidae
Blennocampinae, Monophadnoides rubi. Very nice picture showing the branched spines and their position.
… Dave Smith, 10 November, 2009 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps.
… Beatriz Moisset, 6 October, 2008 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

Yes, there are similar creatures
posted to the Genus Periclista, but we wouldn't know if there is only one genus like this or not. See here
… john and jane balaban, 26 May, 2007 - 10:13am login or register to post comments

 
yes, it does look like one of
yes, it does look like one of those-sort of. I might have to capture a few and findout. If they are still there.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 28 May, 2007 - 1:13pm login or register to post comments

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