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[eirias]

We saw what looked like an amazingly large wasp outside our apartment today.




Any ideas what it might be? The usually-informative bugguide.net couldn't help me here (but maybe I just didn't know what to search for). Check out the ovipositor! -- at a guess I'd say the insect was about 4 inches long altogether.

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[eirias.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's awesome!
Yeah, at first I thought that the long bit was a stinger, and vaguely wondered how it would work, mechanically speaking... but a little bit of reading about wasps made it clear that it was actually an ovipositor. But I didn't realize until reading that site that such wasps don't sting at all!