sawfly


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insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant

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SAWFLIES Sawfly larvae will still be active in summer, particularly on apple and plum trees.
Towards the use pine sawfly pheromones in forest protection: Evaluation of a behavioral antagonist for mating disruption of Neodiprion sertifer.
Called to investigate, Nemer discovered that the culprit was the sawfly, which buries itself in the ground in the winter.
* Revision SawFly: This model failed on a 50 mph shot with measurable direct eye contact of the lens as it flexed inward from convex to concave.
Inspect gooseberries for sawfly, remove if found and prune current season's growth back to five leaves.
- Mrs C Hudson, Newcastle CAROL: They are probably larvae of the rose sawfly. Eggs laid in leaves turn into larvae and eat them, sometimes reducing them to skeletons.
Using host records, we have analyzed use patterns of caterpillar and sawfly species on native and non-native woody plants common to suburban landscapes in the southeastern United States.
Recently, a sawfly, Arge xanthogaster (Cameron 1876) (Hymenoptera: Argidae) (Figs.
The host plant, herbivorous insect, and fungus in my study were pinyon pine, the pinyon pine sawfly Neodiprion edulicolus, and a species of needle rust fungus in the genus Coleosporium.
Beginning in January 2014, Revision will supply as many as 290,000 Sawfly Military Eyewear kits, plus additional accessories.
The chalky barrier helps protect apples from plum curculio, codling moth, apple maggot, apple sawfly and other pests, as well as from sunburn and heat stress.
Specific topics include the method of multiple working hypotheses, the causes and effects of periodic fluctuations in the numbers of animals, the components of predation as revealed by a study of small-mammal predation of the European pine sawfly, the marginal value theorem of optimal foraging, guidelines for authorship of scientific articles, and public attitudes toward a suburban deer herd.