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Sawfly

Description:

Small brown sawfly

Habitat:

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Notes:

One of the most modern (recently evolved) order of insects is the Hymenoptera order. They share two pairs of transparent wings and have complete metamorphosis (compared with, say, the ancient order of dragonflies that have incomplete metamorphosis and no pupa stage). Hymenoptera include sawflies, ants, bees and wasps. Sawflies differ from wasps in not having a sting and not having a narrow waist.

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2 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

I'm still looking argybee. I did see the hugging larvae on the same tree and suspect some relatedness based on the similarity of both stages to the steelblue sawfly.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

Nice clear shots martin. No scientific name for this yet?.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

3765, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Feb 5, 2012
Submitted on Feb 5, 2012

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