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CaptMicha Brookeville, MD(Zone 7a) Jun 14, 2006

These show up every year and skeletonalize my hardy hibiscus every year until I get fed up and end up spraying them. I could put up with them if there weren't thousands of them! Are they sawfly larvae?

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MerryMary Ocoee (W. Orlando), FL(Zone 9b) Jun 16, 2006

Do you have a picture of them?

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CaptMicha Brookeville, MD(Zone 7a) Jun 16, 2006

Oh, whoops. I guess I forgot.

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TomH3787 Raleigh, NC(Zone 7b) Jun 17, 2006

I don't know what they are, but my herbaceous hibiscus get them too. They seem to appear in swarms and chew up the leaves almost overnight. If I'm lucky enough to catch them when they first hatch a spray with insecticidal soap will usually wipe them out.

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DonnaB Vancleave, MS(Zone 8b) Jun 17, 2006

kill them lol, they are ugly and not good moths. I think it is a Rose of Sharon Moth- Anomis commoda. Only 3 others feed on hibiscus Yellow Scallop Moth- Anomis erosia, Glossy Black Idia- Idia lubricalis, and Io Moth- Automeris io. Io moth is a pretty moth but the cat will sting the fire out of you

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Jun 17, 2006

it looks like sawfly to me.

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