sawfly in English
noun
1
an insect related to the wasps, with a sawlike egg-laying tube used to cut into plant tissue before depositing the eggs. The larvae resemble caterpillars and can be serious pests of crops and foliage.
This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
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1. My gooseberries have grown well apart from one bush, which had an attack of gooseberry sawfly.
2. 21 Egg scar patterns of 11 species of the conifer sawfly family Diprionidae inYunnan are described and illustrated for the first time.
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