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PalmBchBill West Palm Beach, FL(Zone 10b) Feb 04, 2007

I've never seen them til this year, near my pond crawling on everything

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Feb 09, 2007

Sorry, I dunno - picture is too blurry. Maybe when they get a little bigger..?

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PalmBchBill West Palm Beach, FL(Zone 10b) Feb 11, 2007

Here's another image,my camera is not good at severe close-ups.
I've never found one any bigger than this.I'm pretty sure it's not a lepidopteran (moth,butterfly).
Best description is a small,slow moving,black,pine tar soaked bird turd.
I've never seen any feeding damage on any plant they've been on.
I can't even determine which end is the head!

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DonnaB Vancleave, MS(Zone 8b) Feb 11, 2007

lol love the description. I have no clue what it is either. Doesn't look to nice though

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phicks Lakeland, FL(Zone 9b) Feb 13, 2007

Takes a Newspaper SPLATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Feb 17, 2007

A thought - caddisfly larvae? I don't know much about them - they are water critters as larvae, I think. Perhaps they come out of the pond to pupate. Or the pond level rose and then went down, stranding them. Have you tried Extension - or sending them in to your land grant college for ID?
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/fc.caddisfly.jpg
http://www.epa.gov/bioindicators/html/caddisflies.html

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PalmBchBill West Palm Beach, FL(Zone 10b) Feb 18, 2007

They're not Caddysfly larva and Yes I did send this link to the Univ.of FLA. entomology dept.
No reply as of Sat.Feb.17th

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Feb 20, 2007

What are the larvae doing now? Did they get any larger?
Please post the answer if/when you get it. I am very curious.

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phicks Lakeland, FL(Zone 9b) Feb 21, 2007

they look like a Moth Larve

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