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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Iris Sawfly

Rhadinoceraea micans

About

A small, metallic blue-black sawfly whose grayish larvae with dark heads feed along the edges of iris leaves, producing distinctive notching damage.

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Did You Know?

Larvae feed along leaf edges in a perfectly straight line, creating neat rectangular notches that are diagnostic for this species.