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| Keywords: Groene rups 4-5cm opgerold.jpg thumb right same animal - walking other picture near rest area Lucasgat on the dutch A1 motorway in an area that has lots of oak and pine-like trees and maybe some birch too It rolled up when the camera came too close and clutched a little twig of the moss it was walking on I ripped the twig out of the ground and photgraphed the head upclose from the bottom protected side The little leggs clutching the twig are also nicely visible As I know nothing about these critters I looked and asked around and it seems this would be the larva of a Birch Sawfly Cimbex femoratus Update According to Doc Taxon it is a Cimbex femoratus larva Doc Taxon states that for other species with very similar larva Cimbex lutea and Cimbex fagi the warts would be smaller and more cone-shaped as oposed to the larger and more Zuckerhut -shaped warts on the C femortaus <small>The German word Zuckerhut refers to a suger cone with fairly steep sides and a clearly rounded tip used in the preparation of Feuerzangenbowle See Wikipedia English or German </small> As a reference for this the following book is quoted H Lorenz M Kraus Die Larvalsystematik der Blattwespen Tenthredinoidea und Megalodontoidea in Nr 1 Abhandlungen zur Larvalsystematik der Insekten Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1957 Please feel free to edit this page and add more identification info or other comments Birch Sawfly Larva Cimbex femoratus - rolled up and clutching a twig <br /> Location Motorway rest area Lucasgat near Apeldoorn Netherlands <br /> Keywords wildlife nature insect symphyta woods woodland birch sawfly summer green larvae caterpillar grub Larve van een Berkenknotssprietbladwesp of kortweg Berkenknopwesp Cimbex femoratus - opgerold en houdt zich vast aan een twijgje mos <br /> Locatie Parkeerplaats Lucasgat langs de A1 bij Apeldoorn NL <br /> Trefwoorden larve berk wesp rups groen Larve der Grosse Birkenknopfhornblattwespe - aufgerollt und hällt sich fest an einen Zweig Moos own 2006-07-29 Pudding4brains P4bFnF Cimbex femoratus Tenthredinoidea heads | ||||
