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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Japanese Giant Ichneumon

Megarhyssa praecellens

About

One of the largest ichneumon wasps in Asia with a remarkably long ovipositor. It parasitizes wood-boring horntail larvae in Japanese forests.

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Did You Know?

Japanese naturalists have studied this species since the Edo period, and it appears in historical entomological scrolls.