Sawfly

Sawfly
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for insects of several families of the order Hymenoptera, which also includes the ants, wasps, and bees.

Sawfly
Sawflies make up the suborder Symphyta, a group of largely phytophagous insects in the order Hymenoptera.

Sawfly
Sawfly larvae feeding
Sawfly on leaf
Saw-tooth Moray, Gymnothorax prionodon Ogilby, 1895
Scale worm larva
Scales of a Brier Shark (0.03 mm scale)
Scales of a Brier Shark (0.1 mm scale)
Scalloped Hammerhead Illustration ...

Avian predation on the larch sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii (HTG.), (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). Ecology. 46(3): 224-236. [82043] 12. Bull, Evelyn L.; Peterson, Steven R.; Thomas, Jack Ward. 1986.

The small black sawfly adults emerge in May and early June, and lay eggs in individual slits cut in the upper surface of developing leaves. Adult females require newly developing foliage for successful oviposition.

Termites, burrowing sawfly larvae, and several species of nematode are occasionally found in the gut contents of N. typhlops along with small reptiles and seeds.

- A, Front of head of Sawfly (Pachynematus); a, labrum; b, clypeus; c, vertex; d, d, antennal cavities. C and D, Mandibles. E, First maxilla; a, cardo; b, stipes; c, galea; d, lacinia; e, palp.

See also: Caterpillar, Beetle, Burro, Spider, Reptile