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Large wasp with long tube out of its rear end. On a building all day long at the RKY camp on Eagle Lake, Parham, ON. - Megarhyssa atrata - female
Copyright © 2011 Gaye Beckwith

Large wasp with long tube out of its rear end. On a building all day long at the RKY camp on Eagle Lake, Parham, ON. - Megarhyssa atrata - Female
North of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
June 17, 2011
Size: 3 cm
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Contributed by Gaye Beckwith on 21 June, 2011 - 1:48pm
Last updated 21 June, 2011 - 3:28pm

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… Bob Carlson, 21 June, 2011 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

Female Megarhyssa atrata


One of the Giant Ichneumons. That tube is her ovipositor. She uses it to lay eggs in the tunnels of wood-boring insects, on which her larve will feed.

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