Sawfly adults are small, short-lived insects slightly resembling wasps to which they are related but their waists are generally thicker. Their ovipositor (egg-laying appendage) is somewhat saw ...

Plant Medic columnist Ricky Kemery says that a reader who has seen rose sawfly damage this year will need to be proactive to ...

Sawflies are actually a type of wasp, however, they look a little unusual and do not possess the “wasp waist” seen in other more common members of the wasp family.Instead, sawflies have saw ...

You may notice a pine sawfly on your pine trees this spring or ... pine hedges in the area being fed on by sawflies, which are a wasp-like insect. They are an invasive species from Europe, and ...

Typically, adult wheat stem sawfly lay eggs in the stem during the growing ... In addition, there have been two parasitic wasps that attack wheat stem sawfly, however their populations are ...

When eggs hatch, the larvae begin eating ... Natural enemies keep many sawfly populations low. Birds, parasitic wasps, predaceous beetles, spiders and small mammals commonly feed on and kill ...

You may notice a pine sawfly on your pine trees this spring or summer. The pesky creatures are more disturbance than damage, but The News Tribune has gathered advice on what to do about them.

Roseslug sawflies are wasps with an immature stage that feeds on the underside of rose leaves. The immature insect looks like a caterpillar but is difficult to see because it is greenish-yellow in ...

The Nebraska Extension held a Crop Production Clinic on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the UNL Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff. The clinic featured presentations and ...

Scientists have shed new light on the evolution of an important species of wasp—and believe that the findings could help ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered parasitizing adult fruit flies – the first of its kind ever documented. Parasitoid wasps' life cycles can get pretty gruesome (at least from the ...