The worms(larvae) that ate my mugho and rose!!

Oh dear. But maybe they will turn into something beautiful? ;-)

Ever the optimist... thanks Sid...wish I could say that they did.. have a feeling they became beetles or something...but I never did see what layed the eggs they hatched from nor did I allow them to live long enough to become whatever they were...lol.. I didn't bother to spray them, I just squished them. no pleasure let me tell you... after I had made my mugho mucky...I sprayed with soapy water and rinsed with the hose. I was hoping for a "ahah!" moment from someone... "you have......."If I knew what they were I could do something proactive instead of having to wait til they appear.

This is quite possibly a sawfly larva. Most butterfly and moth larvae have only 8 abdominal prolegs (middle legs, 4 pair) and sawfly larvae always have more than that. It looks like this guy has lots more than 8. Sawfly larvae can be quite destructive, and there are usually different kinds that eat different things. I lost 2 pines to sawflies and the 3rd is barely hanging on. I didn't notice them until too late. Sawfly larvae always try to defoliate my hibiscus too. I won't use pesticides so I pick them off.

Thanks for the info Di, nice to have a resident entomologist. Have never seen a sawfly, that I could recognize it. Guess I should take some time from the plant books and readup on the pests and beneficials. I am so glad to hear that you don't use pesticides... they used to spray for mosquitoes and army worms where I was brought up...it was ecological genocide...we lost bees, and other beneficials and the insect feeding birds began to decline... there used to be bluebirds before but they are rare now, and the most worrisome thing I've notice recently is the decline in the american robin population...