Wasp with HUGE stinger

Submitted by arkrebel on Mar 25, 2008 in Animals & Pets
Tags: insect wasp weird

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Found this critter on my ceiling. Obviously some kind of wasp but look at that stinger! Anybody know what kind of wasp???

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jooberdoober on Mar 25, 2008 at 03:09 AM

http://bugguide.net/node/view/54935 Long tailed wasp - Megarhyssa atrata - Female Long tail used for egg laying.

woogie on Mar 25, 2008 at 05:36 AM

The long tails are used to find strands of spider webs. They are then followed to the spider in which the wasp lays an egg. The wasp may also bite off the legs of the spider, I assume to keep it in its original safe place, so that the egg can develop. I have seen this with my own eyes.

arkrebel on Mar 26, 2008 at 01:51 AM

Cool, thank you...now I'm a little smarter today than I was yesterday.

dahlman on Jul 01, 2008 at 18:22 PM

wow one of these scared me to death a couple of days ago. That is exactly what I saw. Now I know what it is!

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