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Long Ovipositor - Arotes - female
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Cresswell

Long Ovipositor - Arotes - Female
Near Arden, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA
July 4, 2007
Ichneumonid Wasp? Lighting on a number of locations on a tree trunk, perhaps looking for a good place to use her sizeable ovipositor.
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Contributed by Stephen Cresswell on 5 July, 2007 - 11:40am
Last updated 5 July, 2007 - 1:22pm

Yes.
It is indeed an ichneumon wasp, genus Arotes, one of the few truly distinctive ones:-) Nice image, especially considering they seem to alight for only a nanosecond...
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 July, 2007 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks, Eric, it is great to have an ID. Yes, she lit only very briefly at each stop. I took about six pictures and when I got home I found that only one was really useable, the others blurred by motion!
… Stephen Cresswell, 5 July, 2007 - 1:21pm login or register to post comments

 
LOL
You got motion blurs?:-) I remember going out with a photographer friend, and him trying to get images of a female Ammophila wasp at the entrance to her burrow. He did succeed, but mostly had scenic shots of a patch of dirt, no wasp in sight:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 July, 2007 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

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