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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

North American Horntail

Sirex nigricornis

About

A native North American wood wasp with a dark body and variable coloring from blue-black to brownish. It develops in dead and dying conifers.

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Did You Know?

Unlike the invasive Sirex noctilio, this native species is rarely a pest because it prefers already dead or severely stressed trees.