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- noun Plural form of
sawfly .
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Examples
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Well, what she calls sawflies are those reddish things like a daddy-longlegs, but smaller, [1] and there are a great many of them perching about that room, certainly.
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The perfect combination of events for the sawflies was a cool spring so that everything was slow-growing
prairiemary 2008
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Nor has a single example come to light from among the 4,000 known hymenopteran sawflies and horntails, even though their larvae often form dense cooperative aggregations.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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This seemed to be the case with Hymenoptera, an order of insects comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants, though it did not seem to fit the termites.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Contributions of female oviposition patterns and larval behavior to group defense in conifer sawflies (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae).
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Some taxonomic groups are particularly species rich in a global context: any impact of climate warming on such species, for example, willows (Salix spp.), sawflies, stoneflies, wading birds, and salmonid fish, is likely to affect their diversity at the global level.
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However, in some groups (e.g., peatland birds and sawflies at local sites in the European Arctic), concentrations of both species diversity and density per unit area can increase compared with more southern territories, perhaps because the habitat types appropriate to these groups are more diverse in the tundra than in the boreal forest.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Reversed latitudinal gradient in species richness of sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta).
Introduction to Arctic Tundra and Polar Desert Ecosystems 2009
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Diceratops the ceratopsian (Lull, 1905) is preoccupied by the Hymenoptera insects (one of the larger orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasp, bees and ants; Foerster, 1868).
Diceratops becomes Diceratus ReBecca Foster 2008
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Diceratops the ceratopsian (Lull, 1905) is preoccupied by the Hymenoptera insects (one of the larger orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasp, bees and ants; Foerster, 1868).
Archive 2008-02-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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