Females lay eggs using their horn like ovipositor. Once they hatch, larva will feed on both the sapwood and heartwood layers of hostwood (trees).
The insect is called a sawfly because the female's ovipositor (an egg laying organ) has serrated teeth resembling those of a wood saw. The adults are reddish brown in colour and 8-10 mm long. The larva are caterpillar like.
She inserts her ovipositor (the saws) through the sepal. The insertion and withdrawal of the ovipositor often leaves a brownish discoloration on the sepal or receptacle, which helps in detecting infested blossoms. The egg is about 0.
Definition as written by paulgrow: Braconid wasps are beneficial parasites. They can be 12 mm in length, and their body shape is short and stout. They have an ovipositor carried inside the body until it is needed to inject an egg into a host.
Once the fruit begins to colour and ripen then it becomes attractive to this pest, and close inspection of specimens can reveal the sting mark on the flesh where the ovipositor penetrates into the flesh where the larvae are deposited inside the ...
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