Small yellow-girdled tenthredo
This sawfly is a shiny black insect with a yellow belt around its middle and a yellow tip on its tail. It looks a bit like a wasp, but it is a sawfly. You can meet it on flowers in hedges and meadows.
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Fun facts
Its favourite flowers are flat white ones like cow parsley and hogweed. It also visits brambles and hawthorn.
Its babies grow up on privet, a bush that people often plant as a hedge.
You can tell males and females apart by their legs. Males have black legs, and females have black and yellow legs.
You can see it from May until late summer.
Most asked questions about Small yellow-girdled tenthredo
?What does this sawfly eat?
Nectar and pollen from flowers, and small insects. Its babies eat privet leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tenthredo temula
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Tenthredinidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Tenthredinidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Tenthredo temula (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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