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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Sabre Wasp

Rhyssa persuasoria

About

The largest European ichneumon wasp, recognized by its black-and-white banded body. It parasitizes the larvae of wood wasps within conifer trunks.

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Did You Know?

She can detect a wood wasp larva through several centimeters of solid timber using her antennae.