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Columbine Sawfly, upper side of leaf, egg bump - Pristiphora rufipes

Columbine Sawfly, upper side of leaf, egg bump - Pristiphora rufipes
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
May 10, 2015
May 10, 2015: collected Columbine Duskywing eggs on Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis
Took a while to figure out that a bump on the leaf was a sawfly egg inserted between the leaf layers
June 5-6, 2015: adult sawfly emerged

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