Tips On Managing Pear Sawfly

The pear sawfly, commonly known as pearslug, is not a true slug but resembles one because it exudes a slimy olive green coating over its slug-shaped body; it is actually the larvae of a sawfly. Pearslugs overwinter as pupae. Adult sawflies emerge in spring and are small (about 0.2 inch or 5 mm), shiny black, wasplike, flying insects. Female sawflies lay eggs in the upper surface of leaves, preferring the leaves in the upper portion of the canopy.

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