sawfly
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sawflies
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Origin of sawfly
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"Also, I could mention sawfly larvae that lived in leaves and created tunnels in them as they ate their way through the thin layer of the leaf interior."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
When it does snow, it melts in a few days, and drought conditions have allowed the hemlock sawfly, which feeds on the foliage, to thrive.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2023
About now in the Northeast, you may witness the geometrically patterned larvae of the dogwood sawfly chewing on Cornus foliage.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Of all these small burrowers, the voracious shrews find and consume the largest number of sawfly cocoons.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The Slug-worm is so called from the similarity of the larva of this sawfly to a small black slug.
From The Book of Pears and Plums by Edward Bartrum
The tiny creatures that excavate a leaf’s epidermal layers to feed themselves are larvae from some 50 families of moths, flies, beetles and sawflies.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Eiseman is working on a guide to the larvae of sawflies — the most primitive group of Hymenoptera, the relatives of ants, bees and wasps.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Songbirds, snow geese, otters, herons, pelicans, snakes, mink, raccoon, northern leopard frogs, sawflies, and trumpeter swans, to start.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2018
The wing sounds of approaching parasitic flies warn the larvae of some sawflies to herd together for protection.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
In some Canadian forests a virus that affects pine sawflies has proved so effective in control that it has replaced insecticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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