Researchers have discovered a brand new species of sawfly from an amazingly preserved fossil found in Australia. This is a great discovery – but we need to remember that sawflies are not flies at all.
The new species has been named Baladi warru, meaning saw wasp in the language of the Aboriginal people in the area where the fossil was found. Sawflies are a type of insect belonging to the order ...
But these caterpillars will not turn into butterflies. They are the larvae of the ash sawfly, a highly destructive species thought to have arrived in Northern Ireland in 2016. During the months of ...
The hypothesis that host plant quality affects herbivore densities and community structure was tested by Fritz et al. (1987b). As predicted, both densities of individual sawfly species and the ...
Graham Davey: "It's all in the eyes." Richard J Zaino Richard J Zaino: "Dusky birch sawfly larva, which closely resemble caterpillars, are actually the young of an insect more closely related to ...