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What is a sawfly?

What is a sawfly? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.
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Inspect gooseberries for sawfly, remove if found and prune current season's growth back to five leaves.
Hessian fly, greenbug, and wheat stem sawfly are the primary insects that attack wheat fields.
Apparently the ichneumon fly, and not the true sawfly, is meant.
Formica obscuripes, preys not only on caterpillars, but also on conifer sawfly larvae.
The gooseberry sawfly also targets white and redcurrants, so it's worth keeping a close eye on them too.
The Slug-worm is so called from the similarity of the larva of this sawfly to a small black slug.

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