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sawfly

[ UK /sˈɔːfla‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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