Currant sawflies eat currant leaves. These insects are defoliators. The leaves disappear, sometimes practically overnight. The mock orange sawfly is a pest that has been moving up from the South.

All the “caterpillars” defoliating your dogwoods are dogwood sawfly larvae ... a positive identification on a plant similar to a currant or blackberry. It is taking over several wooded ...

Sometimes in spring when we venture out on a nicer day, we are met with the surprise of our currant leaves being reduced to veins, a mere skeleton of themselves. — Virgene Link-New is a ...

And what do I do now? What does the bush need to live another year? A The problem sounds like currant sawfly, and the Alberta government website has an excellent info page on managing this pest.

A new sawfly species between 11 and 16 million years old has been discovered in Australia, opening a rare window into the evolution of pollinators. It was the first of its kind to be found and ...

In addition to not being harmed by Bt products as are caterpillars, sawfly larva eat almost like ... the leaves stripped off gooseberries and currants. The branches and fruits remain.

A: Most active between April and September, the larvae of the common gooseberry sawfly can rapidly defoliate not just gooseberry bushes but also red and white currant bushes by quickly devouring ...