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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Aulacid, Ensign, and Gasteruptiid Wasps (Evanioidea) » Carrot Wasps (Gasteruptiidae) » Gasteruption » assectator or kirbii (Gasteruption assectator or kirbii)
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Nectaring on Heracleum - Gasteruption - female
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Nectaring on Heracleum - Gasteruption - Female
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 15, 2006
Size: ~11mm
They seem to be licking the base of the stigma. We're assuming this is a female, with the ovipositor.
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 17 July, 2006 - 9:54pm
Last updated 2 July, 2010 - 4:31pm

Moved
Moved from Gasteruption.
Please see Dave Smith's remarks for a more detailed explanation of these two similar species.
… Harsi S. Parker, 2 July, 2010 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

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