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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Horntail Wasps (Siricidae) » Siricinae » Urocerus » California Horntail Wasp (Urocerus californicus)
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Horntail Woodwasp - Urocerus californicus - Urocerus californicus - female
Copyright © 2007 Kevin H. Wirth

Horntail Woodwasp - Urocerus californicus - Urocerus californicus - Female
Port Orchard, WA, Kitsap County, Washington, USA
October 15, 2006
Size: 2"+
Long ovipositor on the rear end?

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Horntail Woodwasp - Urocerus californicus - Urocerus californicus - female large wasp close-up - Urocerus californicus
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Contributed by Kevin H. Wirth on 29 June, 2007 - 3:37pm
Last updated 4 July, 2007 - 2:07pm

Ga-a-a-ah!
I am so envious. I never saw a single one of these alive in all my years in Oregon:-(
… Eric R. Eaton, 2 July, 2007 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Eric
For the positive ID. I know you are the expert on this one, so I really appreciate your input here. And you know, it's funny how it works. You have to NOT want to see one in order to stumble across one. Hint: I found this one in my woodpile settled in for the winter (along with several other wasps). It's amazing what you can find in a woodpile as you start pulling the wood off for fires.
… Kevin H. Wirth, 3 July, 2007 - 1:03am login or register to post comments

Urocerus californicus
compare:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/73279
… John S. Ascher, 30 June, 2007 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John
For the help in ID'ing this one. Appreciate it.
… Kevin H. Wirth, 3 July, 2007 - 1:04am login or register to post comments

neither - nor
. . . but a giant horntail (genus Uroceras).
… Boris Büche, 30 June, 2007 - 6:43am login or register to post comments

Ichneumon or Braconid Wasp.
I don't know these well, but think the striped legs point to Ichneumon.

(Written later: Wrong!)
… Ron Hemberger, 29 June, 2007 - 11:23pm login or register to post comments

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