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mfh417 Conche, Canada Aug 25, 2009

This landed on my deck today and no one in my house has ever seen anything like it. We were trying to identify what it is and were hoping that someone on this website could be of some assistance.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 25, 2009

It's a harmless Ichneumon wasp that lays its eggs in holes that it drills in trees. The offspring parasitize other insects. Genus Megarhyssa, not sure which species but there's only a few it could be:


http://bugguide.net/node/view/4158

http://cirrusimage.com/hymenoptera_ichneumon_megarhyssa_fem.htm

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mfh417 Conche, Canada Aug 25, 2009

Thanks for the fast reply :).
Like I said, none of us have ever seen this before and we were glad to know that it does not sting.

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