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Caterpillar - Macremphytus testaceus
Copyright © 2006 Bret McCarty

Caterpillar - Macremphytus testaceus
Lakewood, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
September 28, 2006
Contributed by Bret McCarty on 28 September, 2006 - 10:55pm
Last updated 10 October, 2015 - 12:33pm

Moved
Moved from Macremphytus.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 October, 2009 - 10:25pm

Moved to guide
Apparently there are three spp. of these that feed on Dogwood, so I'm putting them at the genus level.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 1 October, 2006 - 7:19am

I think this could be a sawfly larva
in which case, a side view would show more prolegs than the caterpillars of butterflies and moths (see image below). More info in guide. Do you have any idea what kind of plant it was eating? That often helps with caterpillar ID.

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 29 September, 2006 - 6:56am

 
Silky Dogwood
I believe it was eating silky dogwood leaves. There were plenty of these caterpillars. Origionally they were white but they shed their powdery, white covering.
… Bret McCarty, 30 September, 2006 - 9:23pm

 
The hostplant is good to know.
We've been building up a lot of similar images that we have tentatively identified as dogwood sawflies. See comments on this one:

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 1 October, 2006 - 6:55am

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