european wheat stem sawfly

european wheat stem sawfly
noun
Usage: usually capitalized E
: a sawfly (Cephus pygmaeus) native to Europe but now widespread in grain-growing areas that has larvae which bore in the stalks of growing wheat and other small grains

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