"rose slug" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1840, The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, page 274",
          "text": "A stated meeting was held this day. T. Lee, Esq., proposed to the Society the importance of awarding a small premium for the purpose of inducing cultivators to discover some effectual method of destroying the rose slug, which infests the rose bush.",
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          "ref": "2013, Loren Nancarrow, Dead Snails Leave No Trails: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden",
          "text": "The rose slug or sawfly is neither a slug nor a fly; actually, it is an insect related to bees and wasps.",
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          "ref": "2015, Peter Kukielski, Roses Without Chemicals: 150 Disease-Free Varieties That Will Change the Way You Grow Roses",
          "text": "Rose slugs are the larvae of sawflies, non-stinging members of the wasp family. Three species are rose pests: the rose slug (Endelomyia aethiops), the bristly rose slug (Cladius difformis), and the curled rose sawfly (Aallantus cinctus).",
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        "The larvae of various species of sawfly that feed on rose plant leaves."
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          "taxonomic": "Cladius difformis",
          "word": "bristly rose slug"
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          "alt": "Endelomyia aethiops",
          "word": "European rose slug"
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          "taxonomic": "Allantus cinctus",
          "word": "curled rose slug"
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      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "roseslug"
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      "alt": "Endelomyia aethiops",
      "word": "European rose slug"
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      "taxonomic": "Allantus cinctus",
      "word": "curled rose slug"
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