How to Use sawfly in a Sentence

sawfly

noun

• The wormlike larvae of the larch sawfly stripped almost all the adult trees of their needles in the mid to late 1990s.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
• On the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, a scale of relative agony caused by sawflies, wasps, bees and ants, the sweat bee comes in at the lowest level of pain.
  — oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2019
• While imaging a fossilized sawfly, Dr. Frese discovered a clump of pollen on the bee-like insect’s head.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Leaf miners are the larvae of various beetles, flies, moths, and sawflies.
  — oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
• There are no reports of the elm zigzag sawfly having caused the death of any elm trees, and species management options remain an area of study, per ODNR.
  — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• The problem in asking me is that there are all manner of reasons why a spruce tree would have needles turn brown, from sawflies and budworms to fungi, viruses, mites and bad weather.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
• The larvae of sawflies look very similar to caterpillars, though there are subtle differences.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
• The primary insect responsible for chewing rose leaves this time of year is a sawfly – in particular, one of a few species of roseslug sawfly.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
• This is an important distinction because not all of the low-risk insecticides used on caterpillars work on sawflies.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
• Adult sawflies emerge in May and June (first generation) and late July and August (second generation).
  — oregonlive, 10 May 2020
• Other plant families have their own leaf miners with the host species and characteristic form of the larva’s leaf squiggles helping to identify the insect species; this includes the larvae of some sawflies and wasps.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• Concerned residents have sent lots of photos of yellow jackets, bumblebees, Elm sawflies and other yellow and black insects.
  — David Williams, CNN, 27 May 2020
• Some gooseberry sawflies can go through four generations during a summer.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
• And this pungent tune helps keep Hoplocampa testudinea, the European apple sawfly, from being eaten.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2021
• National Geographic grantee Aaron Pomerantz, an entomologist, said in his original tweet showing the sawflies.
  — National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Legions of professional entomologists fret about sawflies, ambrosia beetles, scale insects and leafhoppers.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024