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black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female
Copyright © 2007 Robin McLeod

black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - Female
Lucan Conservation Area, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
June 6, 2007
Size: about 15 mm
It crawled out of a crevice in the bark and began walking up the trunk. I'm assuming the very thin thing protruding from the tip of the abdomen is an ovipositor.

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black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female black-and-gold wasp - Ibalia anceps - female
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 9 June, 2007 - 1:03pm
Last updated 10 June, 2007 - 6:56am

Moved
Moved from Ibalia.
… Robin McLeod, 10 June, 2007 - 6:56am

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Martin Hauser, 9 June, 2007 - 3:51pm

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