Giant Ichneumon Wasp

Thank you, SeanSacattackCarter, OneArsenewenger, RiekoS, patty, and thundermilk for your comments :)

Nice pic

Amazing wasp Courtney! Great picture too =)

I missed this picture because I was not a member a year ago.
Thank you very much for bring this back again.
Amazing picture.

SICK!

it's amazing you found it in the midst of laying eggs within a larvae! within a log!!
intense!!!

whoa! that thing is crazy! but i wouldn't want to be around it ;p

@SarahHiteWhitt It des look like a "stick giraffe" if you mistaken it's backend for it's head!

He looks like a kid's drawing of a "stick giraffe" LOL

Very nice!

Fantastico !!!!

Amazing spot Courtney!

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.

waw...........sooo nice...........!!!!!!

Dr. Santanna Our insect specialist would love this!

Imposing!

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/747...

Carolina - your wasps are definitely cool. You take great photographs!

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?

hahaha :) this one is very very cool

And I thought my wasps were cool!

Thank You!

Ichneumon Wasp, Ichneumonoidea.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonoi... or http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/747....