Very strange larvae

Jane99 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-10-2011, 11:57 PM

Can anyone help me to identify these larvae. I know nothing about insects but I have never seen anything like the individual "cells" that these are all in. I found them today Oct 2nd 2011 on the outside of my garage wall. I live in the West Midlands if that helps ID them.
Thanks very much

Lance Morgan · #2 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 10:22 AM

where they under cover. look like wasp grubs

Paul mabbott · #3 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 11:38 AM

No but I'd like to know. Fascinating picture in several ways - the hole below them looks to have been freshly bored.
The spider to bottom right corner of the strip of larvae seems to have its eye out for them - if you look at the spider's abdomen it looks like a human face: does that make it identifiable? Sorry to go off topic ....

Hedera · #4 (**permalink**) 03-10-2011, 03:17 PM

It looks like an uncovered leafcutter bees larvae in their little cells, so I think it must be from something like. The spider is a Salticus -jumping zebra spider, which would no doubt eat the larvae.

Jane99 · #5 (**permalink**) 04-10-2011, 12:05 AM

Thanks for your replies,

Lance Morgan - They were about 6 feet up the wall and the eaves are about 8 feet so not really undercover but they were slightly sheltered.

Paul Mabbott - sorry, the hole underneath is a screw hole from a bracket. We had just removed everything so we could stain the garage.

Jane

sebastianbawn · #6 (**permalink**) 07-10-2011, 01:15 PM

I would have gone with Leafcutter Bee as well. They usually make a cigar shaped nest out of leaves and block the innards in to little cells, each with a single larvae.