The Beautiful, But Kind of Evil Ichneumid Wasp
INSECTS - Hymenoptera - Parasitic Wasp
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This Ichneumon wasp (prob. Megarhyssa macrurus) is an amazing
parasite. This female wasp has located, near the entrance to the hole in
this piece of cut wood, a beetle larva eating tunnels in the wood. The wasp
felt the vibrations of the grub chewing and is now inserting her ovipositor (egg-layer) into the soft side of the beetle baby. Her eggs
will hatch inside the grub and her babies will use it as food. They will
make their pupae in the tunnel and then bore out as adult wasps.







