Ichneumon wasps are common and widespread throughout most of the world with around 25 000 species described to science, however, the real number of different species is probably much more than ...

Giant ichneumon wasp with 7-inch 'stinger' looks scary, but harmless. Staff Writer. ... We identified more than a dozen species, including some rarities — Uhler's sundragon, ...

Indeed, quite a few parasitic wasps can be found on Staten Island. A few weeks ago, I received an email from Suzanne DiMaso, accompanied by some photographs of an ichneumon wasp she had taken in ...

Giant ichneumon wasps, also known as the stump stabber wasp, reside in wooded areas of Washington state, Oregon and elsewhere in the U.S. The females, as pictured here, have long ovipositors ...

Braconid, Ichneumon and Trichogrammatid wasps are usually small in size: 215 mm for Braconids; 3–40 mm for most Ichneumon wasps; and 0.3–1.0 mm for Trichogrammatids.

Female giant ichneumon wasps in the genus Megarhyssa have long, whip-like ovipositors that drill deep to attach an egg to a horntail grub. Wasps in the Ibaliidae family reach young horntail larvae ...

Through an examination of collections, both natural and experimental rearings, and DNA sequence data, three nominal species of ichneumon wasps, having very different morphologies and hitherto ...

The giant ichneumon wasp, megarhyssa rixator, has an unusual method for laying eggs. Using her overly-long ovipositor to drill deep into a tree trunk, she deposits a single egg on to the surface ...

The behavior of yellow jackets, a native species of wasp, lead many to this erroneous conclusion. Leon County is home to multiple wasp species, many which are overlooked by the human residents.

Although Ichneumon wasps, of which there are hundreds of varieties, are pretty common in the area, people tend to notice them less as they are not aggressive, Roberts said.