Tuesday 30 November 2010

Sawfly Larvae

Thank you to Don Herbison-Evans for identifying these for me: http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/none/sawfly.html

6 comments:

  1. Hard to consider these beautiful - but they are in their own way. I used to live in a leafy suburb on the North Shore of Sydney, and on a regular basis I would be inundated with swamps of these blighters ... or ones that look eerily similar.

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  2. Wow... alien or what!
    Makes for fascinating photos :)

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  3. When Alan showed them to me, I squirmed. They're even more alien in real life. :)

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  4. They are not the most pleasant things to come across in the bush. They are known as 'spitfires' because they can squirt an irritating liquid as a defence.

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  5. Revolting but interesting photo, lol, great capture.

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