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Red body with black and yellow stripes. Purple irridescent wings and a stinger extending out of the back of it.
Foliage
Welcome jamiefisher138 to Project Noah. Great picture and spotting. You have found a female Ichneumonid Wasp and the long extension that she has (that looks like a stinger) is her ovipositor, which it uses to deposit an egg into a tunnel in dead wood.
Spotted on Sep 7, 2022
Submitted on Sep 7, 2022
