Large rose sawfly
Arge pagana
The large rose sawfly is a wasp relative with a big, round yellow belly and a black head and back. Its black wings often shine metallic blue. It lays its eggs on roses, and its green caterpillar-like larvae munch the leaves.
Lives in
Europe and Asia, in gardens and wherever roses grow
Length
1 cm (0.39 in)
What does it eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar and eat pollen from flowers like tansy and hogweed. The larvae eat rose leaves.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 22 seconds⚡moves 470 times its own body length every second
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A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Large rose sawfly about 17 km/h (11 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its larvae are pale green with black dots and a yellow head, and grow to about 2.5 centimetres.
2
The larvae live together in groups on rose bushes.
3
In warm years there can be two, or rarely three, generations.
4
It stays a pupa for only a very short time.
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Most asked questions about Large rose sawfly
?What does the large rose sawfly eat?
Its larvae eat rose leaves. The grown-ups visit flowers for nectar and pollen.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arge pagana
- Named by
- Panzer, 1798
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Argidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Argidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Arge pagana (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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