Crop rotation . . . Plant non-host crops such as oats, flax, sunflower, legumes, and to a lesser extent barley, rye, durum and winter wheat. Resistant wheat varieties . . . Solid stem varieties are unsuitable for sawfly development. The following table describes solid stem varieties available for sawfly management.
Yields are relative to sawfly resistant varieties.
Chemical control . . . None is currently recommended for the wheat stem sawfly. They are dark brown to black and the females have wings fringed with long hairs. The wingless young are pale greenish-yellow. Barley thrips are usually a pest on barley at heading time but they have also been found on durum.