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Huge female giant ichneumon wasp,  Megarhissa vagatoria Laying her eggs in a birch. location Leersum the Netherlands. Megarhyssa vagatoria Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Huge female giant ichneumon wasp, Megarhissa vagatoria

Laying her eggs in a birch. location Leersum the Netherlands.

    comments (4)

  1. Fantastic find, Paul! Really awesome!! Posted 5 years ago
    1. thnx very much Christine.
      Posted 5 years ago
  2. Awesome! Posted 5 years ago
    1. thnx Ferdy. Posted 5 years ago

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Megarhyssa vagatoria is an ichneumon wasp in the family Ichneumonidae. They are idiobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of wood-boring horntail wasps.

Species identified by Christine Young
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By Paul Dirksen

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Uploaded Mar 20, 2020. Captured May 25, 2018 10:45.
  • Canon EOS 650D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/1328s
  • ISO400
  • 400mm