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Fri, Aug 1, 14 at 23:06
| Just curious. I have something eating my leaves, leaving holes and some transparent marks on the leaves. |
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| Both are commonly used to describe the same varmint. Kim |
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| The "rose slugs" are the larvae of some types of sawflies. :-) ~Christopher |
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| Thanks Kim and Christopher! |
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- Posted by jim1961 6a Central Pa. (inntruderr61@aol.com) on Sat, Aug 2, 14 at 13:56
| Rose Slugs are the larvae of plant feeding wasps known as sawflies. Sawflies are small, dark, non-stinging wasps. Sawfly larvae (Rose Slugs) skeletonize rose leaves. |
This post was edited by jim1961 on Sat, Aug 2, 14 at 14:00
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| There are probably hundreds of different sawflies. The larvae of three of those species are called rose slugs.Your description sounds like the common rose slug. The translucent windows come from the worms chewing off the bottom surface of the leaf while leaving the top cuticle intact. |
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| Thank you so much Jim and Michael. Wow, the things we learn. |
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- Posted by Toolbelt68 7 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 3, 14 at 21:36
| Look for a small green worm not longer than an inch in length coiled up on a stem or leaf, or chomping away on one of the leaves. One poster showed that just tossing them onto the ground does not really solve the problem as they do craw back to the plant. Best to just pinch them. Check the new growth as the female fly tends to lay her eggs onto the new growth. |
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