An Adult Male Megarhyssa macrurus a Species of Large Ichneumon Wasp After Emergence from a Dead Tree Stump. It is a parasitoid, notable for its extrem

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An Adult Male Megarhyssa macrurus a Species of Large Ichneumon Wasp After Emergence from a Dead Tree Stump. It is a parasitoid, notable for its extremely long ovipositor which it uses to deposit an egg into a tunnel in dead wood bored by its host, the larva of a similarly large species of horntail.

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Location: Colorado
Photo credit: © Rachel Kolokoff Hopper / Alamy / Afripics
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