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Sawflies

Solomon's seal sawflygreen sawflyTop: green sawfly; bottom: Solomon's seal sawfly
Top: green sawfly; bottom: Solomon's seal sawflyTop: green sawfly; bottom: Solomon's seal sawfly
© Top: Rob Wolstenholme; bottom: Bob Gibbons

The larvae of sawflies are plant feeders and resemble the caterpillars of butterflies and moths but have more than five pairs of stumpy legs in the hind region. They are eaten by birds such as chiffchaffs.

Predators

Black clock, Blackbird, Blackcap, Blue tit, Brown long-eared bat, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Coal tit, Common wasp, Devil's coach-horse, Dolichovespula media, Dunnock, Garden warbler, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great tit, Hornet, Leiobunum rotundum, Long-tailed tit, Marsh tit, willow tit, Meadow pipit, Misumena vatia, Nuthatch, Pied flycatcher, Red ant, Reed bunting, Serotine bat, Siskin, Spotted flycatcher, Starling, Swallow, Whitethroat, Willow warbler, Wood mouse, Yellow-necked mouse, Yellowhammer

Sawflies

Green sawfly, Solomon's-seal sawfly