Species
Caliroa cerasi (Cherry slug sawfly)
Caliroa cerasi. Photo: (c) Simon Grove, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The pear slug or cherry slug is the larva of the sawfly, Caliroa cerasi, a nearly worldwide pest. They are not slugs but are a kind of sawfly of the family Tenthredinidae. The pear slug is an important pest that eats leaves of cherry, pear, and plum trees, leaving behind a skeleton of veins. The larvae cover themselves in green slime, making themselves unpalatable to predators. When the larvae are fully grown, they drop off the…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Hymenoptera (Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies)
- Suborder: Symphyta (Sawflies, horntails, and wood wasps)
- Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea (Typical sawflies)
- Family: Tenthredinidae (Common sawflies)
- Subfamily: Heterarthrinae
- Tribe: Caliroini
- Genus: Caliroa
- Species: Caliroa cerasi (Cherry slug sawfly)
- Genus: Caliroa
- Tribe: Caliroini
- Subfamily: Heterarthrinae
- Family: Tenthredinidae (Common sawflies)
- Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea (Typical sawflies)
- Suborder: Symphyta (Sawflies, horntails, and wood wasps)
- Order: Hymenoptera (Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)









