Pear Slug

yes, excellent plan! :) it was welcoming you! :) don't forget to take some photos and show those great french insects to the world, too! :)

I was talking to someone who is responsible for missions, and she told me that they request that only spottings within that radius are added, yes, it is possible to add spottings from all around the world, but it is creator's duty to control and delete spottings that are not within that radius. So I will respect their request :) and wait for some changes :) P.S. she told me that maybe (but only maybe) there will be a global wasp mission soon :) I wish you great spottings in France! :)

Hello. First to say: very nice spot, I really thought it was a slug! About missions: I saw some comments from one NoahRanger on the support chat, saying there would be a rewrite of the code about missions because of some problems with the current implementation but with no schedule. I don't remember who the Ranger was to ask him details but he/she said that with the new implementation the limits could be defined by frontiers and not only by distance. Probably you can ask in the support chat to know more. I noticed that when I look for local missions in France I find nothing, but I can add my butterflies to the "European butterfly" mission which is not global but contains spots from Portugal to Croatia and from Italy to Island, so far beyond the 482km radius! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8... I don't know how this is compatible with the fact that this is not a global mission but it could be a solution to your problem.

So first of all I have to create a local mission (people can add their spottings within the 482 km radius) and if the mission becomes popular I can ask them to consider making it global, but the problem is that within 842 km radius there is only me :( (maybe not only :D , but at least there aren't active spotters) and I don't think that they will consider a mission popular if there's only one person it it... :( 842 km is really not so much.. So I'm not creating the mission. but I did create a group "Sawflies and wasps of the world" on Flickr! :) if you decide to join Flickr, you are very welcome to join this group, too! :)

Let's see how fast they will be with answering! :) Flickr is great! :) And they really have lovely grubs :) but they need many more photos!

Yes, both together would be nice :) I asked them about global missions, so now I'm waiting for the answer! ;) in the mean time I found a sawfly larvae group on Flickr :) do you upload your phots on flickr, too? There's the group http://www.flickr.com/groups/sawflylarvae/ and someone has uploaded there a picture of this pear slug, too! :)

If sawflies and wasps, people could add all those interesting digger wasps and gall wasps, too :)

I'm ready to create one! :) So - only for sawflies and their grubs? or you want wasps in it, too?

yes, unfortunately, I am aware of that! :) and how do they decide that? :)

Professionals - sounds great! :) Actually, that is what I'm amaing at :)) I want to know all the insects (and also birds, and fungi, and all the other organisms) :) I know I won't achieve this goal, but at least I will die trying :) Now because of the weather I can find barely any insect (including sawfly grubs) :( but the next year will be a good one :) and yes, sawflies deserve their own mission! :) Tomorrow I will read about the creation of missions, now it's a bit too late :)

haha, I am a biologist, but I'm studying microbiology :D insects and other big organisms are only my hobby :) and I really got puzzled with this one! :)) and, yes, we should!!! Sawflies are really amazing!!! and there should be a sawfly mission here on PN! :) So people could add their great findings :)) and we also have to find more and more intersting grubs and grown-ups, too! :) Congratulations with the first spotting!! :)

Thank you! :) Welcome to English in my case :) In my language we have only one word for all of these :D

The term 'slug' is unfortunate. Sawfly (wasp) grubs usually look like this http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/38371144 . Hymenoptera (ant,bee wasp,sawfly) and coleoptera (beetle) larvae are called grubs. Diptera (fly) larvae are usually called maggots. Lepidoptera (butterfly, moth) larvae are called caterpillars. Sometimes unusual moth caterpillars are called slugs too http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/38099117 Welcome to biology.

It looks like sawflies have the craziest larvae!! They are so different and so weird! :)

I had two ideas - one was a leech :D (like those who live on trees in rain forests (as if your garden was a rain forest :D ...)) and the second was a caterpillar :) Great that martinl, knew what it is! :) slug as an option didn't came into my mind...

O_o That is something very interesting!!!! :)