3 Unidentified ichneumon wasp at Wodonga, VIC
Identification history
| Ichneumonidae (family) | 2 Feb 2025 | DiBickers | ||
| Ichneumonidae (family) | 22 Jan 2025 | SimoneC | ||
| Unverified | 31 Dec 2024 | KylieWaldon |
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Yikes. Run away! Oh wait, the poor little beetle larvae can't run away. This parasitic wasp landed whilst I was there, and I could be wrong, but looked like it checked out each larvae and then grabbed one by the head and injected its butt into it. Laid an egg inside it? Not sure. Never seen anything like this before. I thought the beetle larvae were icky to taste and touch.
4 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
21 Jan 2025
Hi Kylie. Your suggestion of a female laying an egg is correct.
Location information
- Coordinates 146.901856-36.142221
- Maps Wodonga
- Places Wodonga, VIC
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 26 Dec 2024 06:54 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Mesmerising nature moments..... KylieWaldon NatureMapr Albury, Wodonga Featured Ichneumonidae (family) Parasitic wasps (numerous families) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Additional information
- gum tree Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Ichneumonidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified ichneumon wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1472.5m Recorded at altitude
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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