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Spotted Xiphydriid Wood Wasp

Xiphydria camelus

About

A slender wood wasp with a distinctively elongated neck-like pronotum and white spots on a dark body. Females bore into hardwood trees to lay eggs.

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Did You Know?

Like horntails, Xiphydria wood wasps carry symbiotic fungi in special pouches called mycangia, which they inject into wood during egg-laying.