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Giant Ichneumon Wasp

Megarhyssa macrurus

Photo by CourtneyVerk
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Giant Ichneumon Wasp

Megarhyssa macrurus

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Comments (23)
CourtneyVerk
Thank you, SeanSacattackCarter, OneArsenewenger, RiekoS, patty, and thundermilk for your comments :)
patty
Amazing wasp Courtney! Great picture too =)
RiekoS
I missed this picture because I was not a member a year ago. Thank you very much for bring this back again. Amazing picture.
OneArseneWenger
it's amazing you found it in the midst of laying eggs within a larvae! within a log!! intense!!!
Josh Asel
whoa! that thing is crazy! but i wouldn't want to be around it ;p
CourtneyVerk
@SarahHiteWhitt It des look like a "stick giraffe" if you mistaken it's backend for it's head!
SarahWhitt
He looks like a kid's drawing of a "stick giraffe" LOL
KarenL
Amazing spot Courtney!
CourtneyVerk
Thank you Chun! When I took this picture the wasp was indeed on top of a tree log. Unfortunately it flew away shortly after I took this picture.
ChunXingWong
I'm not a wasp expert but I think that wasp is trying to inject it's egg into the grub inside the wood. Try reading the description here in http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7475234
CourtneyVerk
Carolina - your wasps are definitely cool. You take great photographs!
CourtneyVerk
Thanks all! I was hiking on the Bruce Trail in Southern Ontario when I found this wasp. It looked like it was in the process of hatching/shedding as it's tail was uncurling before my eyes. Any wasp experts?
Carolina
And I thought my wasps were cool!
ChunXingWong
Ichneumon Wasp, Ichneumonoidea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonoidea or http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7475234.

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