Group member Katherine Moore has found a Black Slip Wasp and sent a photo. This fierce-looking ichneumonid is parasitic, laying its eggs in the caterpillars of butterflies and moths. This one is a female and the 'spike' on the tail-end of the abdomen is an ovipositor, rather than a sting. It is a species mainly seen in the autumn.
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| Black Slip Wasp (Pimpla rufipes) (female) - Blackfordby garden |
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