October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
Lat week's mystery was the IDs of these three guys in Hawk Mountain's native plant garden last month — all within the span of about five minutes.
Dana Price responded that the first and third photos are both dogwood sawfly larvae- they're actually wasps. #2 is a milkweed tussock.
More about Dogwood Sawfly larvae here.
Thanks, Dana! Learn something new all the time. Crikey!