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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Black Horntail

Xeris spectrum

Not Evaluated

About

A slender black horntail wasp that breeds in dead conifer wood across the Northern Hemisphere. It is frequently found in fire-damaged forests.

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Did You Know?

It is typically one of the first wood-boring insects to colonize trees killed by forest fires.