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Photo#1647762
early-season wasp

early-season wasp
Lake Meyer Park, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
April 2, 2019
Size: 8 mm
This colorful slender little wasp was feeding on tree sap today as the first insects starting flying on a south-facing oak woodland slope. My thought is a braconid wasp by comparing the size and shape, but I didn't find anything close in the braconid photos I compared. I'm not trained enough to see the wing detail here and determine if it might be a small ichneumon wasp.

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Ichneumon wasp
Thanks so much for identifying this as an Ichneumon wasp, Ken! I could not tell if there were one or two recurrent veins on its forewing. Now I can narrow down my search for a possible match in Ichneumon wasps, since I didn't even try looking there.

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