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Ovipositing female - Neoxabea bipunctata - female

Ovipositing female - Neoxabea bipunctata - Female
Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA
August 31, 2008
This female has her ovipositor deeply inserted into the hole she drilled using the tip of the ovipositor....into this hard branch of a crabapple tree. Amazing.

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Ovipositing female - Neoxabea bipunctata - female Oviposited eggs site on crabapple tree - Neoxabea bipunctata

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