Pest · rapeseed
Beet sawfly
Athalia rosae (Linnaeus)EPPO code ATALCO
- Ukrainian
- ріпаковий пильщик · Держпродспоживслужба, НААН, НАН
- English
- beet sawfly · European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
How to recognise it
- Adult
- The adults are shiny and bright orange, with a black head and antennae.
- Pupa
- The cocoon is brown on the outside and shiny and silvery on the inside, lined with a continuous waterproof layer that looks like paper.
- Damage
- The larvae eat the leaves down to the veins.
When and with what to treat
- When to look
- In autumn, sawfly false caterpillars (larvae) feed on winter oilseed rape seedlings.
Registered against this organism by a ministry order · 2
- Request offers
Ato ZhukOrder No. 1372
Ukravit · Ріпак
ЛОК-5, КЕOrder No. 4158
Ріпак
No rate and no spray timing here: both come from the label and the register.
Without chemicals, and prevention
- Agronomy
- Carry out deep autumn ploughing and destroy weeds.
What harm it does
- Yield loss
- Because the larvae eat the leaves down to the veins, young plants dry out.
Sources and how we checked
Every fact rests on a quote from its source, and each quote was checked against the page it is printed on.
- Зайцева І. А., «Сільськогосподарська ентомологія. Курс лекцій», навчальний посібник, 237 с. · Дніпровський державний аграрно-економічний університет, Дніпро, 2021 · p. 162
- EPPO Global Database · European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
- Прогноз фітосанітарного стану агроценозів України та рекомендації щодо захисту рослин у 2025 році · Держпродспоживслужба, НААН, НАН · p. 125
- Photos: Donald Hobern, iNaturalist, CC BY 4.0 · Michael Becker, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sanja565658, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Paul Cook, iNaturalist, CC BY 4.0