what are these larvea likely to be?

[youcallthatbig]

morning folks,

 

found these emerging / crawling about on the ends of recently felled oaks, only in sap wood area, they were live yesterday ,but it was lashing it down with rain so did not take photos, they were actually springing off the logs onto the ground believe it or not, now, 24hrs later all appear dead and much fewer in number ,and having been sprayed with insecticide this am even fewer alive I hope.....

curious to know what they might be larvae of.. looked like a small maggot, so assume from a flying insect,

I am not into entomology  so am at a loss, presume not the processional oak moth as these appear to form nests on surface of bark....

 

but there were thousands of the things yesterday..

 

hope somebody with more knowledge  can enlighten me.

 

cheers in advance

 

Tim

[Anno]

really difficult without features and emergence holes, but a thorough infestation!

[timbernut]

morning folks,
 
found these emerging / crawling about on the ends of recently felled oaks, only in sap wood area, they were live yesterday ,but it was lashing it down with rain so did not take photos, they were actually springing off the logs onto the ground believe it or not, now, 24hrs later all appear dead and much fewer in number ,and having been sprayed with insecticide this am even fewer alive I hope.....
curious to know what they might be larvae of.. looked like a small maggot, so assume from a flying insect,
I am not into entomology  so am at a loss, presume not the processional oak moth as these appear to form nests on surface of bark....
 
but there were thousands of the things yesterday..
 
hope somebody with more knowledge  can enlighten me.
 
cheers in advance
 
Tim

Hi Tim, how you doin? Only just seen this!
Did they look like this: