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Caliroa cerasi (Linnaeus) (Pear And Cherry Slug Sawfly)

Date: 7 July 2007
Location: Berks, England
State: Larva
Record Summary: larva, on upperside of windowed leaf of ornamental almond
Associated organism: on upperside live, windowed leaf of Prunus
Identification Notes: Slug-like larva, on upperside of leaf where it feeds from the surface leaving windows of the lower epidermis.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Almond leaves with larval feeding damage - shade view 500 by 413 pixels
naked eye photograph Almond leaves with larval feeding damage - sunshine view 500 by 418 pixels
naked eye photograph Larva - dorso-lateral view - enlarged 500 by 296 pixels
naked eye photograph Larva - lateral view - close-up - enlarged 500 by 262 pixels
naked eye photograph Larva - lateral view - enlarged 500 by 255 pixels
naked eye photograph Larva - latero-dorsal view - close-up - enlarged 500 by 356 pixels
naked eye photograph Larva - latero-dorsal view - enlarged 500 by 256 pixels
naked eye photograph Larva with feeding windows 500 by 333 pixels

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