#3589 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Alder Sawfly
Eriocampa ovata
📍 Abel Tasmankade, Haarlem, North Holland, NL
📍 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland
📍 Lexmond, Lexmond, South Holland, NL
📍 Nationaal Park De Biesbosch, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, NL
📍 Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © George Mitchell · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Pekka Malinen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Matt Bowser · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Žygimantas Valiuška · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Abel Tasmankade, Haarlem, North Holland, NL:© Karin Gunther · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 8421 Oldeberkoop, Nederland:© wleurs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Lexmond, Lexmond, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. Nationaal Park De Biesbosch, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Eriocampa ovata , known generally as the alder sawfly or woolly alder sawfly , is a species of common sawfly in the family Tenthredinidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 38 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,556 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1760 (266 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Alder Sawfly
- scientific name
- Eriocampa ovata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Tenthredinidae
- sightings in NL
- 38
- sightings in Europe
- 1,248
- sightings worldwide
- 2,556
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,313
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1760
relatives· Tenthredinidae
#3521 📷 7Turnip Sawfly
🇳🇱 Knollenbladwesp
Athalia rosae
👀 264 in NL
#3540 📷 10Yellow-spotted Macrophya
Macrophya montana
👀 135 in NL
#3541 📷 10Solomon's-seal sawfly
🇳🇱 Salomonszegel bladwesp
Phymatocera aterrima
👀 131 in NL
#3544 📷 10Saddleback Grass-cutter
Eutomostethus ephippium
👀 120 in NL
#3548 📷 10Figwort sawfly
🇳🇱 Helmkruidbladwesp
Tenthredo scrophulariae
👀 105 in NL
#3552 📷 10Common Sedge-sawfly
Selandria serva
👀 93 in NL
#3566 📷 7Tenthredo campestris
Tenthredo campestris
👀 67 in NL
#3568 📷 10Willow Redgall Sawfly
🇳🇱 Gewone blaasbladwesp
Euura proxima
👀 64 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 418164, Wikidata Q14582716, GBIF 4490902, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.