Figures 5.11
Figures 5.11. A female of the parasitic wasp Megarhyssa nortoni (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) probing a pine log with her very long ovipositor in search of a larva of the sirex wood wasp, Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae).
If a larva is located, she stings and paralyses it before laying an egg on it.