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http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=butternut&w=39535669%40N00&m=pool
A neighbor who also has a veg. garden carried a leaf over to me to identify what looked like a small cotton floor-mop of tangled threads, but it walked! None of the neighbors could identify it but eventually she found the pix on line: a "Butternut wooly" and member of the sawfly family so considered a bad actor. I was not happy to hear about it since I've just had a good butternut squash year here for the first time!  Have any of you had contact with this strange one, at least strange to us in Delaware?

very similar to the mealybug destroyer larva i found twice this year. the picture is in this blog entry.

http://kellasvegeplotandothermusings.blogspot.com/2009/08/it-feels-so-good-to-get-my-groove-back.html

he's fabulous!!!
hope he doesn't invite all his mates over to start munching on your crops though

Quote from: norfolklass on September 08, 2009, 10:08:20
he's fabulous!!!
hope he doesn't invite all his mates over to start munching on your crops though

As more neighbors pick up veg. gardening he and his mates may become a common sight.
That's not progress.