Giant Wasp Drills Through Tree to Parasitize Other Wasp's Larva

A Giant Ichneumon Wasp, Megarhyssa atrata female drills her long genitalia through the trunk of a tree to sting and paralyze the larva of a horntail wood wasp deep below the surface. Her egg will go onto to hatch and consume the wood wasp larva before emerging the following summer as an adult. www.insectslimited.com

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Imagine the person was actually that close

[@geraldwegner1158]

This is a great little educational/ explanatory video connecting form and function on the topic of giant ichneumon wasps.

[@InsectsLimited]

Thank you Gerald! This is a great compliment coming from a wasp expert like yourself.

[@TheCrappyZipper]

This music is a good choice for this style of informational short TH-cam video. Probably also royalty free and easy to find. However it's a comedic effect as well due to the innocent vibe it puts off in contrast to the paralyzing of bug larvae and eventual consumption of them while they are still living, that is taking place.

[@fedeglopera9980]

Does it sting, and if it does, does it do it with its long tubes to deposit eggs?

[@VictorFursov]

Interesting parasitoid! Thanks for video!

[@InsectsLimited]

Our pleasure!

[@otherwasp]

Oh no, my larva!

[@tree4318]

whoever made this, the music is a baffling choice for this content lol

[@InsectsLimited]

While we understand that everyone has different tastes in music, we kind of like the natural rhythms that comes within nature and thought this was a good fit. We completely get it if you're in a different camp of thought on this though!🙂 Thanks for the comment.

[@tree4318]

@@InsectsLimited but the natural rhythm here is not represented accurately by the music

[@elfboy29]

@@tree4318 It should have the music to Alien.

[@user-nu1sp3kp7z]

That's disgusting and beautiful at the same time. Anyway, really interesting - wathched several times. Thank you!

[@InsectsLimited]

Glad you enjoyed it

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