Spitfires Sawfly Larvae from Australia What's That Bug?
The name 'Spitfire' is often given to two common species of Australian insect larvae. One is a Caterpillar : Doratifera vulnerans, which everts stinging hairs when disturbed. It does not actually spit anything, but the sting from the hairs hurts like a burn does.
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Spitfire Caterpillars near Laratinga Wetlands.Spitfire Caterpillars. The name 'Spitfire' is often given to two common species of Australian insect larvae. On.
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The term spitfire is slang for sawfly babies, technically larvae. They are bristly black grubs that look like strange caterpillars and grow into wasps - with four wings, but without a stinger. The most common sawfly in South Australia is the steel-blue sawfly, which can be found in open areas with lots of gumtrees.
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They can bring joy in the form of the promise of a beautiful butterfly, despair as they devour tender young broccoli plants, or itching and pain as a spitfire caterpillar brushes against your bare skin. Around August, moths and butterflies are busily searching for a safe place to lay their eggs.
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Accept and close Sawflies are a relatively small group of insects. There are 176 species in Australia, including those with larvae known as 'spitfires'.
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Spitfires LIMACODIDAE. Carries a silk cocoon around, often with sticks or leaves glued to it: Bagmoths PSYCHIDAE Smooth with a pointed horn on the tail: Hawk moths SPHINGIDAE Smooth, hides by day, destroys lawns and crops at night: Cutworms and Armyworms NOCTUIDAE Hairy, especially with four tussocks on the back: LYMANTRIIDAE Just hairy:
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Sawflies are in the same order Hymenoptera as ants, bees and wasps. Those are placed in suborder Apocrita while Sawflies are placed in a suborder Symphyta. They are only a few families in the Sawfly suborder. Most sawflies found in Australia are in family Pergidae. Subfamily Perginae. Adults and larvae in Perginae are large in size.
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One very destructive genus is the Steel-Blue Sawfly (Perga sp.) which attacks eucalypts in south-eastern Australia. These larvae secrete an irritating or distasteful liquid from their mouths. With this defence, the sawfly larvae are usually avoided by predators. They are sometimes called 'spitfires', although they don't actually spit.
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The spitfire sawfly ( Perga affinis, family Pergidae) is a hymenopteran insect found in Australia. It is up to 22 mm long, has two pairs of wings, with a wingspan up to 40 mm, and its wings are honey colored. Its larvae are up to 80 mm long and somewhat resemble a caterpillar.
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Some Sawfly larvae are called 'spitfires' because of their repulsive defence tactic of rearing up and regurgitating thick yellow fluid to drive away predators. Image above: Sawfly Larvae Best Treatment for Sawfly Larvae The secret to pest control is to keep an eye on your plants, so that you can detect pest incursions early.
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The term spitfire is most commonly a slang term for several species of sawfly larvae from the family Pergidae. Despite the name, the larvae are not from a fly at all but actually a wasp with four wings and no stinger. And the larvae, while they might look like it, aren't really caterpillars.
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By Roger Thomas. Updated September 20 2012 - 4:00pm, first published 7:00am. Comments. Nature Notes: the defence of spitfire grubs. MOST caterpillars grow into butterflies or moths, but the.
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Meet Ochrogaster lunifer: one of Australia's strangest species of caterpillar, wielding no less than 2 million finely barbed hairs that will inflict a nasty case of hives - or worse - if you happen to touch one.
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Saw Fly Larvae: Spitfires SYMPHYTA, HYMENOPTERA Don Herbison-Evans ( [email protected]) and Stella Crossley (Photo: courtesy of Tim Ellis, taken in Melbourne, Victoria) Sawfly larvae are not true Caterpillars , but are the larvae of various species of wasps, or more accurately Symphyta .
