Large rose sawfly (Arge pagana) laying eggs on Dog rose (Rosa canina) on a chalk grassland slope using an ovipositor inserted into a young stem, Bath

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Large rose sawfly (Arge pagana) laying eggs on Dog rose (Rosa canina) on a chalk grassland slope using an ovipositor inserted into a young stem, Bath and Northeast Somerset, UK, June.

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Location: Bath and Northeast Somerset
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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