"A Pseudoperga sp. sawfly stands guard over her brood. I had no idea sawflies displayed this sort of maternal behaviour. Photographed in Dandenong Ranges National Park, Victoria, Australia."
Source and photographer: Nick Monaghan
Website: lifeunseen.com
#Insects #Sawfly
Orange and black Turnip Sawfly on the yellow flowers of Fennel
A black and yellow solitary wasp on the tiny yellow flowers of Fennel
The black and yellow of a Common Wasp feeding on the yellow flowers of Fennel background blurred.
#insects #wasp #sawfly
Left to right - A Fennel flower providing sustenance to a Turnip Sawfly (Althalia rose).
The solitary wasp Ectemnius sp. Feeding on Fennel.
Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) enjoying the fruits of the Fennel flower, well nectar!
There's something in common here 😊
Sawfly larvae look like small yellow caterpillars with black speckles. Two larvae host on the seedpods of green false hellebore.
Larvae hosting on green false hellebore.
Green false hellebore is highly toxic and kills pretty much everything that decides to eat it, but a highly understudied sawfly species known as Rhadinoceraea nubilipennis is one of the few exceptions. These are presumed to be that. #bugsky #sawfly #swamps
#Vaablase (Vaablane)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Sääse
#Sawfly, hornet. Probably the European hornet, #VespaCrabro common in #Estonia. Part of an insect street-name group. See #Kiili.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
16 months to confirm this 1st record for Brighton (and my garden)
Nematus lucidus (Tornado Sawfly)
#wildlife #entomology #NaturePhotography #nature #naturephotographer #sawfly #insects #invertefest #ukwildlife #bugsky #Brighton #naturalscience #wildlifephotography #brightonwildlife
Been a while since I last saw a Pear Slug (Caliroa cerasi)! On Hawthorn in Shropshire. #Sawfly #Hymenoptera
A green caterpillar with white longitudinal stripes and a yellowish head with dark markings. Amongst brown conifer needles on a piece of white fabric.
What very much appears to be European Spruce Sawfly Gilpinia hercyniae, tapped from a spruce at the weekend. Apparently the first Kent record. #KentNature #sawfly #sawflies #Symphyta
A long red berry hangs against a wooden frame below a small lime colored berry. There is a tiny larva eating a hole in one green leaf on the top right of the image.
#InsectThursday #Sawfly #larva enjoying the leaves on my #Strawberry plants! 🤨
#Gardening #FoodOnFriday #GrowYourOwnFood #EastCoastKin #VT
Woolly Adler Sawfly Eriocampa ovata larva on Alder Alnus glutinosa leaf.
The unusual looking larvae of Alder Sawfly (Eriocampa ovata) supposedly resemble a bird-dropping. Seen at Barton Turf. #sawfly
This is a close-up photo of a small insect perched on a green plant stem. The insect has a shiny black head and thorax with long, straight antennae. Its wings are transparent with dark veins and folded back along its body. The abdomen is a distinct bright orange, creating a strong contrast against the darker front half. It has slender black legs gripping the green stem, with blurred green leaves and background providing a natural setting. This insect looks like a sawfly (order Hymenoptera, suborder Symphyta), which are related to wasps but lack the narrow “waist” typical of wasps and bees.
Dagger Moth caterpillar apparently
Hazel Sawfly performing gymnastics
Hazel sawfly practice for the synchronised event
Something had been eating birch leaves and today we found the culprits. The Grey Dagger moth caterpillar might be incidental but the Hazel Sawfly are definitely guilty! #moth #sawfly 🇬🇧🌱
A photo taken looking down into a buttercup. It has a sawfly inside that is resting on its side tucked in between the petals and the anthers.
Wandering in the woods one evening we noticed that sawflies had tucked themselves in for the night inside buttercups. Something a little cute about them laying down on their side 🙂
#insectthursday #sawfly
A dark, glossy Sawfly larva on a Pear tree leaf.
Caliroa cerasi larva on Pear leaf. I'm not sure how the pattern emerges,
On espaliered #Pear tree. #Sawfly larvae (Caliroa cerasi) munching away. #Invertebrates #Insects #Symphypta
#insect #sawfly #backyard #wildlife #pokeweed #phytolacca #hymenoptera
Today I learned that there's such a thing as a pokeweed sawfly (Allantus basilaris). I clearly don't spend enough time around toxic plants. So obscure that I can't find a good photo of the tiny thing. Here's my crap one.
Believe these to be Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly. Humberhead Levels garden hedge.
Are there any #Sawfly #Symphyta experts able to confirm my thoughts that these are Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly in my #HumberheadLevels garden (mixed species hedge) this afternoon #Hymenoptera
Brownfield site I’ve been working on today, I won’t say where, client confidentiality and all that but housing proposed to go on top of this early successional habitat of Bell Heather and Ling. couple finds, Birch Sawfly and Romualdius angustusetulus. #Curculionidae #Weevil #Symphyta #Sawfly #Beetle
A bright green curled up fern with a bright green caterpillar curled up resting on top of the fern.
#ColorADay #GreenSat
#Ferns #Sawfly #larva #insects #bugsky #gardening #phonetography
I
saw
a sawfly,
sawn by a fly,
seen by me, flying by
seen by a sawfly,
sawn by a fly
#saw
#sawfly
#fly
#poetry
Willow redgall : Euura proxima : England : VC27 East Norfolk : TM3389 : July 2025 : On Salix fragilis leaf
Willow redgall : Euura proxima : England : VC27 East Norfolk : TM3389 : July 2025 : On Salix fragilis leaf
Willow redgall : Euura proxima : England : VC27 East Norfolk : TM3389 : July 2025 : On Salix fragilis leaf
'Red bean' #galls of #sawfly Euura proxima on leaves of crack willow (Salix fragilis) at Ditchingham, Norfolk, England. Larvae feed on leaf tissue in safety of galls during summer, before pupating in soil when leaves fall in autumn. Adults emerge in spring only to mate and lay eggs in fresh leaves.
I found a mating pair of #sawflies. As they were predisposed I managed a few shots.
These individuals are from one of the several Rhogogaster species found in the #UK
🔬:Rhogogaster Sp.
📍:Birmingham UK
#macroaddicts #macro #macrophotography #nature #wildlife #hymenoptera #sawfly
These Solomon’s Seal #Sawfly larvae have almost completely eaten themselves out of their own home.
Yes, they look like caterpillars but really are larvae of sawfly, which is a type of #wasp in the order Hymenoptera (not Lepidoptera, like true #butterflies and #moths).
A green 'caterpillar' with a black line on its side and a pale orange head.
#Entomology #insect people - whose baby is this? My first thought was a sawfly but I'm really not sure. An odd lepidoptera caterpillar? A hover fly larva? Other? Manitoba, Canada. Today.
Cc @nev @xris
#caterpillar #sawfly #hymenoptera #lepidoptera #diptera
What I think is Arge cyanocrocea, Bramble Sawfly, seen at Kimmeridge Bay, #Dorset, 29/05/25 @suillia.bsky.social #sawfly
Here's the footage of the maybe #sawfly #larvae I found in my garden.
It is cute. I found it eating my succulents so I moved it to the weeds.
I only used my pixel 8 camera phone with a macro lens attachment. Not bad (same with my other videos).
#invertebrates
A greyish caterpillar looking like larvae with a black head on a leaf.
A greyish caterpillar looking like larvae with a black head on a leaf.
A greyish caterpillar looking like larvae with a black head on a leaf.
Not sure what it is. When I looked it up, results say Sawfly larvae but there are so many different kinds.
#sawfly #larvae maybe #invertebrate
This is the Greater Yorkshire Death Hornet. It has stung a tree that made it angry, which has fallen over and died from the pain.
#GreaterHorntail #Sawfly
