CLOSED: Caterpillar eatin Lord Baltimore leaves

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lata5 Montreal, Canada Sep 06, 2014

Can someone identify this caterpillar
I would like to find its life cycle to inhibit is attack next year
Does it lay eggs in the soil or the plant stem or soil level
It creates a mosaic in the leaves similar damage to the Japanese beetle

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Sep 07, 2014

Not a caterpillar, but a larva of a hibiscus sawfly; it's life cycle is incompletely known - http://fsg.ces.ncsu.edu/publication/hibiscus-sawfly-atomacera-decepta/ and http://www.emmitsburg.net/gardens/articles/frederick/2005/sawflies.htm

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