Insect & Disease ID Trivia

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nope. not coelidia olitoria. hint.. everything you need to take a big shortcut to id this critter is in the photo.
 
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Palm is on the right track, and leafhopper is as well. now just find a leaf hopper that feeds on, and causes problems with palms, and you're in the ten ring!
 
What Did This?

Really stumped me on the palm bugs! No palms around here! Even your standard old eastern bugs are a mystery to me. We have different critters and fortunately so far, not so many bad ones out here on the northern foothills of the Rockies. That is changing though.

Here's one for everyone to guess at(attached). I tried to pick one that might work for anywhere. Now, I cannot prove what did this work on this particlular large shrub but I have seen similar work where I do know what caused it.
 

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Great guesses. I ruled out cats too because most of the stripping is from the underside of the lean and none of it is near the ground where cats tend to be active.
And it very well might have been a squirrel in this case (which means case solved!), but its another critter that I have in mind as a potential perp becasue I've seen it do this.
 
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Good guess Starlet, but I have the additional advantage of knowing deer could not get into this garden.
This fall I saw moose damage on some aspens at an acreage we were working at. Wish I had my camera for that.

My first guess on this one was 'rotten grandkids' similar to above guess of 'conservative tree hater' but that was ruled out by the owners.

There are no scratch or gnaw marks - just the stripping.
 
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Don't think we have lilac borer here PC - never run across that critter before. Don't think I want to meet an insect that could do that either!
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I believe birds did this. Not kidding! I've seen sparrows strip shreddy shrubs like this honeysuckle bit by bit for their nests - more than once. People don't notice what is going on until they see lots of bark gone.
Could also have been a squirrel as first guessed although I've never witnessed that myself - but I have seen squirrels running along wires with hunks of carpets and when we have to take down abandoned nests they are full of stuff (scouring pads, string, old gloves etc).
 
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I'm not convinced on the bird damage prognosis. I'd expect to see claw marks or more peck marks. Of course i'm probably wrong.

I've seen birds use rough barked trees to help in breaking seeds. They'll jam a sunflower seed in a bark crevice and then chip away at it damaging the bark.
 
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Just regular sized ones! They strip off shreds for their nests. They strip off a shred and then they fly off with it. They can go at it for quite some time. It always seems to be honeysuckle which has very shreddy bark. This example has an awful lot shredded off so maybe it was more than one bird.
Or maybe bigger birds or squirrels also rip bark shreds for nests too.

The more typical squirrel damage out here is caused by young squirrels which looks like gnawed patches, usually high up on the upper sides of large limbs. I don't know whether they do it to hone their teeth or for relief or whatever.
 
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Frax,I'm looking at the inside not the outside, it appears you have a gallery with frass in your Lonicera (tatarica?).
 
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Thanks PC. It looks like I'm probably going to be the one learning the most out of this!
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This image was a quick point and shoot and I never really took a close look. I never considered that the honeysuckle (yup - it is L. tatarica) might have been stripped to reach larvae. Maybe there is a gallery there. I can't really tell for sure, but next time I see one of these shreddy shrubs I'm going to take a closer look.
I'm not familiar with any insects (Sesiids or beetles) that we have here that do this in Alberta on Lonicera but I have put a question out there to entomologists I know to find out what might pop up around here.
There are a lot of invasives or bugs expanding their ranges that are knocking at the door here.
 
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Hey everyone,
I probably shouldn't post this considering a.) it's not my turn, and b.) I don't know the answer! However, I figured you all in here are the crowd who would appreciate the photo.
This is on Juglans nigra. Pretty cool canker huh?
 

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