Strange Bug?
Location: Zumbro Falls, MN (Mississippi River Vally)
August 14, 2011 3:59 pm
Hi,
We where camping and found this bug on a almost completely dead tree. What we though was a large wasp but after a closer look it wasn’t a wasp but some wasp/mayfly looking thing, we stood there and ask a lot of people walking by, and everyone was stumped, can you help?
Thanks,
Lars
Signature: ?no idea?
Hi Lars,
This Giant Ichnuemon, Megarhyssa atrata, is in the process of laying eggs. She is a parasitoid member of the wasp and bee order, and her prey are the wood boring larvae of a wood wasp known as the Pigeon Horntail.