Female Peach Tree Borer

Subject: What’s That Bug
Location: NH
August 7, 2015 3:12 pm
Saw this bug while watching humming birds on a lake in Barrington, NH
Signature: Ron

Female Peach Tree Borer

Dear Ron,
This is a female Peach Tree Borer, a wasp mimic moth whose larvae bore in the wood of peach and related stone fruit trees.  We just posted an image of a mating pair of this sexually dimorphic species.

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Location: Barrington, New Hampshire