How to Use sawfly in a Sentence
sawfly
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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
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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
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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
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Leaf miners are the larvae of various beetles, flies, moths, and sawflies.
—oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
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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
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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
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The larvae of sawflies look very similar to caterpillars, though there are subtle differences.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
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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
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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
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Adult sawflies emerge in May and June (first generation) and late July and August (second generation).
—oregonlive, 10 May 2020
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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
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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
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Some gooseberry sawflies can go through four generations during a summer.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
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And this pungent tune helps keep Hoplocampa testudinea, the European apple sawfly, from being eaten.
—Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2021
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National Geographic grantee Aaron Pomerantz, an entomologist, said in his original tweet showing the sawflies.
—National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2017
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Legions of professional entomologists fret about sawflies, ambrosia beetles, scale insects and leafhoppers.
—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
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