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On 1/18/2016 5:34 PM, bev wigney wrote: > Looks like a Yellow Underwing moth larva to me. More about them on this > web page. http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2013/01/20/winter-cutworm-found-in-snow/ * incredible how these guys think they can find a better hibernation site so late in the fall/winter! Here's ones on the streets in the village here: Noctua pronuba 1 Dec 2015 Noctua pronuba 2 Dec 2015 cf Noctua pronuba 4 Dec 2015 cf Noctua pronuba 6 Dec 2015 cf Noctua pronuba 8 Dec 2015 cf Noctua pronuba 9 Dec 2015 cf Noctua pronuba 14 Dec 2015 Noctua pronuba 17 Dec 2015 cf Noctua pronuba 21 Dec 2015 (cf's are mostly roadkills) - Bev led me to the name of these this year, and even though the previous identifications are retrospective they seem to be increasing in accordance with their invasive nature. fred. ====================================================== > On 2016-01-18, at 7:11 PM, Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca > <mailto:dcrossland@eastlink.ca>> wrote: > >> I need the help of those naturalists who revel in the entomological world: >> >> I received a photo from my sister (link below) wanting to know the >> name of this large ‘grub’ found near the Bridgewater area on Jan >> 13th. There were two of them crawling on top of the fresh snow. They >> were almost the size a “a little finger”, referring to both length and >> diameter of a small finger. (A good snack for a bird, except they are >> now apparently in a jar.) >> >> -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------
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