Bramble sawfly
The bramble sawfly is a small insect with a black head, a bright orange body and reddish legs. Its wings have a wide dark band across them. You can see it on flowers in early summer.
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Fun facts
Its larvae look just like caterpillars, but they have five pairs of stubby back legs, while caterpillars have four.
It does not have the thin waist that most wasps have.
You can see the grown-ups from May to July.
Its little red legs have tiny black rings, like striped socks.
Most asked questions about Bramble sawfly
?What does the bramble sawfly eat?
The grown-ups eat pollen and nectar, and the larvae eat bramble leaves, like blackberry and raspberry.
Myth buster
Myth: A sawfly is a kind of fly.
Truth: No. Sawflies are cousins of wasps and bees, not of flies.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arge cyanocrocea
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Argidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Argidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Arge cyanocrocea (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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