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Caterpillar Does anyone know what kind of caterpillar this is? They ate all the leaves on my elderberry plants. I had the plants for years and this is the 1st time this has happened. Click/tap to enlarge

Caterpillar

Does anyone know what kind of caterpillar this is? They ate all the leaves on my elderberry plants. I had the plants for years and this is the 1st time this has happened.

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    hi Emilia, this is probably not a caterpillar. It may be the larvae of a sawfly. Here's another one:
    Sawfly larva Dolerus - eating down, Netherlands This larvae of a sawfly is literally eating itself down. Spotted near a pond in the south of the Netherlands. Geotagged,Heesch,Macro,The Netherlands

    And then a hero comes along... This is the front view of the larvea of a sawfly crawling between two leafs right towards me. They are quite lengthy and have a funny spherical head, almost like a doll. I am unsure of the exact species of sawfly, as there are so many. Geotagged,Heesch,Macro,The Netherlands
     Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago
  2. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
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    A few similar ones
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/299926
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/749005/bgpage
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/48271/bgpage     Posted 11 years ago

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Uploaded May 28, 2014. Captured May 28, 2014 14:01.
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  • NEX-7
  • f/6.3
  • 1/125s
  • ISO100
  • 47mm