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A large, non-stinging wasp. The female has a large ovipositor.
Is it some sort of hornet? I've never seen anything like this before
Large wasp with elongated body. Warm brown coloration with dark markings. Wings ...
I'd estimate 3 cm but likely longer. Very thick and stocky
Forested area. One was alive and appeared to be laying eggs, the other was ...
This insect was struggling in the water and I saved him from being frog food. ...
Horntail, sawfly, wasp? I thought it might ...
America and are like all Ichnuemons, is a parasitoid. Its preferred prey is ...
This is a Horntail Wasp or Wood Wasp of the ...
Large, cigar-shaped wasp, brown with black and yellow markings. Females have ...
1 1/2" long horntail wasp. Despite looking ...
1-1/2 inch, cylindrical, dark red to black, yellowish cross bands on abdomen, ...
wood to lay an egg on the larva of a wood boring insect, the Pigeon
Related to the sawflies, but set apart from the other Hymenoptera by their lack ...
1 1/2 inches. Cylindrical. Head and body orange; abdomen long, with black and ...
This Giant Ichneumon Wasp is laying its eggs into the grub of a Pigeon Tremex ...
large insect, a species of horntail, see ...
Body length about 12-14 mm, colored as shown. Abdomen laterally flattened so ...
horntail larvae between the months of June ...
This beautiful wasp is a deep amber color, with yellow and black markings ...
the horntail wasps (hymenopteran family ...
Pigeon tremex wasps are in a group known as the
Ichneumonidae is a family within the insect order Hymenoptera. Insects in this ...