Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Belted Fern-sawfly being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Ametastegia equiseti
- Ametastegia carpini
- Strongylogaster filicis
- Empria pallimacula
- Ametastegia perla
- Phymatoceropsis sibiricola
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Tenthredinidae
- Genus
- Strongylogaster
- Species
- Strongylogaster mixta
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