The latest addition to our garden fauna is this wasp-sized sawfly. The larvae feed on Mullein (Verbascum) and other scrophulariaceae.
Figwort Sawfly (Tenthredo scrophulariae)
Nikon CP995.
Many thanks to Bioimages and Steve Covey for helping to confirm the identification.
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- Redstart, Ferry Meadows
- Along the Railway
- Old Sulehay Fungi
- Otter or Loch Ness Monster?
- Figwort Sawfly
- Wow! A sunny day!
- Shield-bugs
- Tanholt take 2
- Cliff-nesting House Martins
- Gryf Rhys-Jones and other ancient monuments
- A hot welsh walk
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