Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Members of this subfamily are associated with various plants. Some hosts are strawberries, raspberries, roses, violets, and dogwood. After feeding is completed, larvae of many species bore into fruits, wood, or other suitable substances for pupating or overwintering. The occurrence of larvae in these secondary hosts is sometimes more significant if in cultivated fruits or structural wood, but it is purely incidental depending on their proximity to the true host plant. Adults of this subfamily are medium to large sawflies and may be either rather stout or elongated.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
