sawfly

IPA: sˈɔfɫaɪ

Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.

Examples of "sawfly" in Sentences

Working toward a theory on galling sawfly population dynamics.
A diprionid sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer) is the most serious defoliator of pine forests in northern Europe.
While the sawfly has been a problem in this area for a number of years, last year was the perfect storm for the insect, "she said.
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.
In northern whitecedar swamps, the needle-chomping larch sawfly is often present in large numbers, feeding many a swamp bird and its young.
Also present are oak sawfly larvae, many-legged and like milky translucent sausages: their green diet is mistily visible, and their skin armed with black, curved spines.
In boreal Alaska, a larch sawfly outbreak killed most of the larger and older tamarack (Larix laricina) trees during a warm period in the decade of the 1990s, and aspen leaf miner (Phyllocnistis populiella) appeared at outbreak levels (142,000 ha) by 2003 [28].
The mapped area of forest affected by spruce budworm, spruce coneworm (Dioryctria reniculelloides), and larch sawfly (Pristiphora erichsonii) defoliation mapped throughout Interior Alaska increased, totaling over 300,000 ha of combined infestations during the period 1991 to 1996 [25].