“I have several black wormlike creatures covering some leaves on a Fothergilla bush,” writes this reader in her submission regarding the critters pictured below. “They are black on top with a segmented pattern and very yellow underbellies. I just noticed them and I live in Transylvania County, NC. Thank you!” First off, we want to thank our reader for the spectacular photos – the amount of detail she captured is immaculate, and the lighting is excellent. Good quality photos really help us make out the finer details of a given worm’s physical appearance, which then helps us identify them. Secondly, the worm-like creatures our reader found on the bush are dogwood sawfly larvae.