Day 37 - Rose sawfly

After school today I had a barefoot wander in the garden to see what insects I could find on the roses.  Sometimes I find spiders, wasps, ants and the odd butterfly, but today it was only flies.

(Excuse the pyjamas! The first things I do when I get home from work are take of my socks (if I was wearing any) then swap work trousers for comfy old PJs!)

I found a few greenfly hiding in this rose

On another rose I spotted these two...

Sawfly larvae, presumably the same type as this adult version...

The Rose Sawfly, or Arge ochropus.

I had a good look and counted 9 little sawfly caterpillars altogether, plus the adult pictured above and one I saw on another rose bush.
 

I was surprised to only count 9 as I've seen many more than that in the past...

but then these were photographed one August and are much bigger so I expect today's small group are just the beginning!