Sawflies are ravenous insects that feed on a wide variety of landscape trees, shrubs, and conifers. “They are actually not flies. They get their name from the saw-like ovipositor which they use to cut ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Sawflies are frequent pests in the landscape that attack a wide variety of plants, from ornamental flowers to large trees. You might start to see them damaging plants around ...

Gardeners know that amidst the promises of each new growing season come its challenges, usually in the form of weather or pests. A common insect pest this time of year are sawfly larvae, which feed on ...

Wheat stem sawfly is a native insect that feeds on grasses in Colorado. The insect was first identified by entomologists in Colorado around the late 1800’s and primarily fed on range grasses. However, ...

RICHARDTON, N.D. -- Vern Tormaschy was putting on anhydrous ammonia, preparing ground for the Mott variety of spring wheat in 2012. Going to Mott is a strategy that worked in 2011 after losing half of ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Researchers at Montana State University published new research about stem sawflies, which cost agricultural producers millions annually. Doctoral student Jackson Strand, master’s ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State University says it might have an answer to a $100-million-a-year problem for the state's wheat farmers. Researchers report they've identified an insecticide to kill ...

You may think caterpillars were devouring your dogwoods this year, but these lookalike larvae are actually sawflies in the order Hymenoptera and are related to bees, wasps and ants. (True caterpillars ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- An invasive insect that's originally from East Asia has arrived in North Carolina, according to researchers at NC State. The elm zigzag sawfly, or Aproceros leucopoda, first ...