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Tremex columba
Red and black wasp, about 1 inch long. Found clinging to dead buckthorn, on chily, windy morning. When I poked it, it would lift it's wings, and curl its abdomen up.
Deciduous forest adjacent to tall grass prairie.
Some type of horntail - a sawfly in the family Siricidae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horntail
http://bugguide.net/node/view/226
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/techno...
Fantastic looking wasp! Looking forward to an ID on this one. Good job capturing various angles and details/habitat, dferris1
Spotted on Oct 7, 2014
Submitted on Oct 7, 2014
