Female Broadnecked Root Borer

Subject: What is this?
Location: Florida
August 7, 2017 6:25 pm
Found this at work today, inside a building. What is it and will it sting ?
Signature: Sally

Female Broadnecked Root Borer

Dear Sally,
This female Broadnecked Root Borer does not sting.  What you have mistaken for a stinger is actually an ovipositor used to lay eggs.

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