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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae) » Nematinae » Cladiini » Cladius » Bristly Roseslug Sawfly (Cladius pectinicornis)
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Cladius difformis - Cladius pectinicornis
Copyright © 2014 metrioptera

Cladius difformis - Cladius pectinicornis
Kennebunk, York County, Maine, USA
June 28, 2014
These small sawfly larvae managed to almost completely defoliate a "knockout rose" in my front garden before I even noticed. I have collected all the individuals I can find and am feeding them on the invasive multiflora rose.
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Contributed by metrioptera on 2 July, 2014 - 10:26pm
Last updated 4 July, 2014 - 6:33pm

Did you succeed in raising th
Did you succeed in raising them?
… Even Dankowicz, 11 May, 2015 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

 
no, unfortunately
Mold invaded the container and killed them. Maybe I'll find them again this year.
… metrioptera, 11 May, 2015 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

 
You will find them
They are on my rose bushes every year. I tried to encourage them to attack the multiflora rose without success. It would be nice if they could control this invasive.
… Beatriz Moisset, 4 February, 2016 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps.
… metrioptera, 4 July, 2014 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

Tenthredinidae, Nematinae
Cladius difformis (Panzer), "bristly rose slug"
… Dave Smith, 4 July, 2014 - 6:32pm login or register to post comments

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