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UK
/sˈɔːflaɪ/
]
NOUN
- insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
How To Use sawfly In A Sentence
- The mechanism of resistance to the wheat stem sawfly should be regarded as a result caused by synthetic factors during the period of plant growth and development.
- It could have been a horntail, which is actually a sawfly.
- I call a sawfly, 'I said very patiently,' is a red animal, like a daddy-longlegs, but not so big, perhaps an inch long, perhaps less. A Thin Ghost and Others
- Despite my love of beasties generally, the larvae of the gooseberry sawfly are top of my hit list at the moment.
- Housing developments, which often feature non-native landscape plantings, can bring pests such as the sawfly that infested the Bracken Brae population in 1992.
- A diprionid sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer) is the most serious defoliator of pine forests in northern Europe. Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic
- Working toward a theory on galling sawfly population dynamics. Introduction to Arctic Tundra and Polar Desert Ecosystems
- This is berberis sawfly, which can devastate a plant within days. The Sun
- The soft fruit bed looks fantastic this year, with raspberries and strawberries both covered in flowers, the blackcurrants heavy with fruit and the gooseberries almost sawfly free.
- The gooseberry sawfly also targets white and redcurrants, so it's worth keeping a close eye on them too.