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Photo#116816
black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female

black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - Female
Lucan Conservation Area, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
June 6, 2007
Size: about 15 mm
Head-down on trunk of dead hickory (image rotated 90 degrees). The wasp's abdomen appears laterally flattened.

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black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female

Great find!
These are not commonly seen insects.

Thanks, Martin
Moved from Ibalia to species page. Apparently, the only other eastern species (I. leucospoides) has a black head and thorax, and an unmarked dark red abdomen.

Moved

Not a sawfly - It is a Ibalia
Not a sawfly - It is a Ibalia (Ibaliidae) - a parasite of Tremex.
Stephan Blank

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