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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Rhyssinae » Giant Ichneumonid Wasps (Megarhyssa) » Long-tailed Giant Ichneumonid Wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus) » Megarhyssa macrurus macrurus
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Giant Ichneumon Wasp (with potential mates) - Megarhyssa macrurus - male - female
Copyright © 2006 Sasha Azevedo

Giant Ichneumon Wasp (with potential mates) - Megarhyssa macrurus - Male Female
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
April 14, 2006

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Giant Ichneumon Wasp (with potential mates) - Megarhyssa macrurus - male - female Giant Ichneumon Wasp (with potential mates) - Megarhyssa macrurus - male - female
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Contributed by Sasha Azevedo on 14 April, 2006 - 7:54pm
Last updated 30 March, 2023 - 8:56am

Moved
Moved from Long-tailed Giant Ichneumonid Wasp.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 30 March, 2023 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Orange and Brown.
… john and jane balaban, 23 October, 2006 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

Wow
This is a neat shot. I don't know what it is, though.
… Lynette Elliott, 14 April, 2006 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks like a female Megarhyssa
and at least 4 males, with one of them successfully mating. See and
… john and jane balaban, 14 April, 2006 - 8:12pm login or register to post comments

 
megarhyssa
Nice photos, and thanks the both of you. I have many more of this species from today's shoot, several in which the female is laying eggs. From what I have read, dead logs are one of the most common places that this species lays eggs. That's exactly where I discovered these wasps ~ dead logs.
… Sasha Azevedo, 14 April, 2006 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

 
We hope one of the experts will chime
in with an answer, but we don't think she cares about the log at all. With that long ovipositor she is probably drilling down into the wood looking for a horntail larva, according to the info page, upon which to lay her egg. We'll check the comments on the images in the guide and see what we can find. So the real question is what do the Horntails like!
… john and jane balaban, 14 April, 2006 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

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