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Sawfly larvae?

Lilybeanz🌸Lilybeanz🌸 Posts: 66
in Problem solving
Hi all, some of my plants are being stripped by what I thought were caterpillars, they have been around for some weeks but I now think they are sawfly larvae, can anyone confirm this?
Please see the photo below 



If they are sawfly should I get rid of them? 
Thanks 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    yes they are but I think the days of 'getting rid of' have to be over. We are losing the plot and the future



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yes. pick the leaves with sawfly off the plant and dispose of on bird table or in the bin.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lilybeanz🌸Lilybeanz🌸 Posts: 66
    Thank you, I have given them to the birds, it seems there were more than I thought and they had just moved on to my lily collection!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My Solomon’s Seal where covered with little grey caterpillars ,  they are prone to sawfly but I’ve never had so many as this year,  after they’d  finished I just chopped it down to the ground, the birds loved them.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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