Possibly European Apple Sawfly - Hoplocampa testudinea.
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spectracide immunox will take care of the strawberries. not sure on the grape though.
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Grape cane gallmaker galls I think. Not something I have direct experience with since they don’t occur here, but it doesn’t look like they have much impact on grapevine health or productivity.
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That is 
it. I saw the circular bites/punctures earlier in the spring before the purple/red markings showed up.
Thank you @GrapeNut !
https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef223
For anyone else that might have this same pest 
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Its a weevil. Depends on where you are and what plant you found them on to narrow it down. I’m most familiar with the plum curculio but they are colored more like bird turds.
Thanks for the info. In fact I founded it in the outside cabinet where I keep my garden tools.
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Plum Curculio also has a very bumpy body, unlike the Didier weevil, above.
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I saw this guy on one of my loquat grafts this afternoon:
According to Google its a male march fly and they are good pollinators, larvae eat dead plant material. Sounds good.
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I have a very unhappy Moonglow. The last couple of years it will look like this in the spring then push new growth and be okay in the summer.
After I took this of a jumping spider doing some work, I noticed this fly seems to have a jaw like a dragonfly nymph. @LarryGene any idea what this is?
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Google Lens shows Tanyptera atrata,a type of Crane fly.
But Seek has Bibio vestitus,a March fly.
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Most likely Bibio albipennis, said to be the most common of the March Fly species.
^ Lane County, OR
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The cranefly ID suggestion is problematic:
Eyes, legs, and abdomen taper are all wrong for crane flies.
The Bibio ID is more likely, but I cannot find an Ohio record for the species suggested, B. vestitus. The “jaw” may be a distortion of a foreleg, as the other two leg pairs are very apparent, leaving the foreleg pair obscured.
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I wonder if it’s this guy: Small brown hairy weevil - Rhinusa tetra - BugGuide.Net
but young so not very hairy.
One of my gooseberries has a strange thick substance on its leaves. It’s an orange color almost looks like a pile of beef pollen and there’s a darker spot in the middle. Does anyone know what that could be?
Edited to add, I thinks it’s white pine blister rust. 