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Fast moving larva
Copyright © 2019 eaglebeach

Fast moving larva
Tracys Landing, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
July 3, 2019
Climbing up a black walnut tree very quickly
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Contributed by eaglebeach on 5 July, 2019 - 1:12pm
Last updated 5 July, 2019 - 5:55pm

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 July, 2019 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

Green Lacewing larva
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… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 July, 2019 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Can you point me to literature that explains this? There were many, many, many debris carrying larvae on this tree which would likely also be green lacewing larva? Of course they carry debris to get closer to food, and maybe seem less attractive to predators.

Why would they shed their debris? What happens in between larva and adult and why.

Also the debris carrying larvae here were gigantic compared to ones I witnessed last year on an oak tree. These were on a walnut tree. Different species? Time of year?
… eaglebeach, 5 July, 2019 - 2:26pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm no expert, but...
...my understanding is that some genera carry debris and others do not. So yes, the debris-carriers on the same tree were most likely green lacewings, but of a different genus/species. The smaller ones you saw elsewhere might have been a different genus/species--or they might have been the same species but an earlier (and thus smaller) instar.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 5 July, 2019 - 2:41pm login or register to post comments

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