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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Sirex Woodwasp

Sirex noctilio

About

A large blue-black woodwasp that bores into pine trees to lay eggs. It injects a symbiotic fungus into the wood that feeds its developing larvae.

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Did You Know?

Females carry a special fungus in abdominal glands and inoculate trees during egg-laying.