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Urocerus cressoni Norton, 1864 g b (black and red horntail) Urocerus flavicornis Fabricius, 1781 g b (yellow-horned horntail wasp) Urocerus franzinii C.Pesarini & F.Pesarini, 1977 g; Urocerus gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) b (giant woodwasp) Urocerus japonicus (Smith, 1874) [4] (Japanese horntail) Urocerus sah (Mocsáry, 1881) g
Urocerus gigas, the giant woodwasp, banded horntail, or greater horntail, is a species of sawfly native to the Palearctic realm and North Africa but also reside in North America and Kelty since 2004. Though they are not wasps, their appearance resembles one due to mimicry . [ 1 ]
Horntail or wood wasp are any of the 150 non-social species of the hymenopteran family Siricidae, a type of wood-eating sawfly.The common name "horntail" derives from the stout, spine-like structure at the end of the adult's abdomen which is present in both sexes.
Urocerus albicornis (white-horned horntail) is a species of horntail native to North America. [1] [2] [3] [4] This species has occasionally been introduced into ...
Megarhyssa nortoni is a predatory insect. Its larvae are parasitoids of horntail wasp larvae in coniferous trees. The adult female hunts horntail larvae for egg placement. It smells wood-eating fungus, utilized by the horntail larvae to predigest wood pulp, and uses its antennae to detect vibrations made by the horntail larvae.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
Tremex columba, also known as the pigeon tremex or pigeon horntail, is a species of horntail that is native to eastern and western North America. [1] Appearance and ...
Megarhyssa male adults reach body lengths going from 2.3 to 3.8 cm (0.9 to 1.6 inches), while female adults can measure from 3.5 to 7.5 cm (1.5 to 3 inches). [3] Both sexes can be distinguished because females have an extremely slender, and long organ to lay eggs called the ovipositor.