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	Ichneumon Wasp
		The body of the wasp is nearly 1 1/2 inches in length, but the ovipositor of the female can be nearly 5 inches in length, and though it can pierce several inches of wood, humans need not fear since it is not used for stinging.
		The female Ichneumon uses her ovipositor to lay her eggs in wood where the young grub locates wood boring beetle grubs and feeds on them.
		The female wasp lays her eggs inside the caterpillar and the young feed on the living host, eventually pupating within the caterpillar which soon dies.
	www.whatsthatbug.com /bug_biographies/bio_ichneumon.html (174 words)

	The Amazing Ichneumon
		Ichneumons are often incorrectly referred to as flies, but they are directly related to wasps and bees.
		Ichneumon wasps are economically and environmentally important because their larvae feed on and destroy many insects injurious to humans and plants, especially to food crops.
		Ichneumons are important in the control of clinch bugs, boll weevils, codling moths and asparagus beetles, just to name a few.
	www.mdc.mo.gov /conmag/2002/05/30.htm (1230 words)

	Solitary Wasps in NZ
		Ichneumon wasps are commonly used as biocontrol agents.
		One species of ichneumon wasp that hunts caterpillars at night and is often attracted to house lights is the "red soldier", which is also known as the "bloodsucker" — although it does not suck blood.
		This ichneumon is similar in size and appearance to the native giant and has an ovipositor that is twice as long as the body.
	www.landcareresearch.co.nz /information_services/mwpress/research/biosecurity/stowaways/Wasps/solitarywasps.asp (661 words)

	Ichneumonidae at AllExperts
		Ichneumon wasps are important parasitoids of other insects.
		Ovipositors and stingers are homologous structures; some Ichneumons inject venom along with the egg, but they do not use the ovipositor as a stinger, per se.
		How the female wasp is able to drill with her ovipositor into solid wood is still somewhat of a mystery to science, though it has been found that there is metal (ionized manganese or zinc) in the extreme tip of some species' ovipositors.
	en.allexperts.com /e/i/ic/ichneumonidae.htm (452 words)

	Ichneumon Wasps - Hymenoptera family Ichneumonidae
		Ichneumon wasps of both sexes will wander over the surface of logs, tree trunks, and even grass stems tapping with their antennae.
		Some species of ichneumon wasps lay their eggs inthe ground, some even inject them directly into a host's body.
		This female wasp is fully 4 inches long, including ovipositor.
	www.cirrusimage.com /hymenoptera_ichneumonidae.htm (564 words)

	How to identify ichneumon wasps
		As for the adult ichneumon wasp, the best way to find it is to watch for a thin, delicate wasp that has antennae that is about half the size of their body.
		The ovipositor of this ichneumon wasp is used to penetrate through wood so eggs can be laid in the developing larvae of the horntail wasp which is a primitive wasp whose larvae feed in tunnels inside wood.
		The several different species of the ichneumon wasp are known to parasitize the larvae of tent caterpillars, silk moths, cutworms, tussock moths, fall webworms, butterfly caterpillars and in some cases, even their own species.
	ca.essortment.com /ichneumonwasps_rwum.htm (622 words)

	Six Legs and a Buzz
		Ichneumon wasp larvae nibble on the grub's nutrient reserve, a store of energy and raw materials that is meant to fuel metamorphosis into the hard-shelled adult form and even power the long-horned beetle's short adult life.
		The wasp with the four-inch stinger would need you to be perfectly still and cooperative just to get her ovipositor into its functional pose, which requires that it be strongly arched and threaded between her long back legs.
		Mud daubers, the shiny, blue-fl wasps that build tubes of mud in dry places like rock overhangs and barns, are an example of this third type of wasp, and they provision their nests with spiders.
	www.hellbenderpress.com /vol31/sixlegs.html (954 words)

	Ichneumonidae Information
		They differ from the wasps that sting (Scolioidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea) in that the antennae are longer, usually with 16 or more segments.
		Ichneumon wasps of both sexes will wander over the surface of logs, tree trunks, and even grass stems tapping with their antennae.
		Some species of ichneumon wasps lay their eggs in the ground, some even inject them directly into a host's body.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ichneumonidae (367 words)

	Ichneumon wasp@Everything2.com
		The standard Ichneumon wasp has two pairs of veiny wings and an ovipositor on the abdomen for breeding.
		Some wasps have a short one, but the Rhyssa persuasoria needs an especailly long organ so that it can drill through wood to lay its eggs in the larvae of the Wood wasp.
		Wasp is an insect that has a insatiable desire for sugar.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=526564 (923 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ichneumon wasps are insects classified in the Parasitica group of the suborder Apocrita within the Order Hymenoptera.
		Often inaccurately called ichneumon flies, they are solitary insects, and most are parasitoidsâ”the larvae feeding on or in another insect which finally dies.
		Various ichneumons are used successfully as biological control agents in controlling pests such as flies or beetles.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=ichneumon_wasp (417 words)

	Nuisance Parasitic Wasps, HYG-2113-95
		The long-tailed Megarhyssa is the largest ichneumon wasp in Ohio and recognized by three, long, hairlike parts of the ovipositor (up to five inches long) on females.
		Wasp larva that hatches from the egg feed internally, slowly devouring the weevil larva.
		Trichogramma wasps sold commercially are parasites of cabbleworm, tomato hornworm, corn earworm, codling moth, cutworm, armyworm, webworm, cabble looper, corn borer and almost all moth and butterfly eggs that hatch into worm pests.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/2000/2113.html (1558 words)

	Ichneumon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ichneumon (also known as ichneumon wasp or ichneumon fly), common name for a large group of inconspicuous insects renowned for their habit of...
		The common Egyptian species, the ichneumon, was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians.
		- parasite of other insects: a slender insect related to and resembling a wasp that is a parasite of many insect pests, laying its eggs in insect larvae.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Ichneumon.html (112 words)

	Encyclopedia Bugtannica: Giant Ichneumon Wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These large parasitic wasps, members of the genus Megarhyssa (family Ichneumonidae), are quite an impressive insect with a body length of up to 1.5 inches, and in the case of the females, an ovipositor that is twice as long as the body.
		Giant ichneumon wasps can be found in woodland areas from late spring until the end of summer, crawling around on logs and tree trunks that may be infested with wood boring larvae of the horntail wasps (hymenopteran family Siricidae).
		When a female wasp senses that there is a host larva inside the wood, she starts to drill down to it with her ovipositor.
	members.aol.com /yesclub2/blichneumon.html (568 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Giant ichneumon fly/wasp, sabre wasp
		This parasitic species is the largest ichneumon fly in Britain, and one of the largest in Europe.
		Ichneumons are parasites that lay their eggs in or on the larvae of other insects or spiders.
		The hosts of giant ichneumons are usually the larvae of horntails, or wood wasps (Orocerus gigas), and related species, as well as the larvae of longhorn beetles (Monochamus sutor).
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3033.shtml (341 words)

	ANIMAL Teachers: Crawling Ones: Wasp Family
		Wasps are one of the most feared of Insects.
		Mud Dauber Wasp, a Solitary Wasp, constructs Her nest from mud, and attaches the nest to the wall of a building.
		Wasp teaches caution but also to learn "to expect the unexpected." Use Wasp’s warrior spirit to discern what is the truth.
	funkman.org /animal/insect/waspfamily.html (412 words)

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		According to Stokes in his "Guide to Insect Lives," the long ovipositor "is used to penetrate through wood and lay an egg in the developing larva of a horntail, a primitive wasp whose larva feeds in tunnels inside the wood" of maple trees.
		The pigeon tremex bores only into maple trees and the ichneumon wasp is a parasite only on the pigeon tremex.
		It is one of a wide array of beneficial insects, a solitary wasp that does not bite or sting.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~insrisg/nature/nw95/ichneumon.html (599 words)

	Ophion sp. (ichneumon wasp) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is a wasp in the family Ichneumonidae, subfamily Ophioninae, and probably in the genus Ophion.
		I can tell this by the orange colouration which is a colour pattern that many groups of unrelated ichneumonids, braconids and other parasitic wasps converge on when they are nocturnal.
		Note that in addition to the large fl eyes on the sides of the head there are three small simple eyes ("ocelli") located on the top of the head.
	members.shaw.ca /kent.brothers/LocalBiodiversity/Ophion.htm (268 words)

	Ichneumon wasp
		Possibly a more common ichneumon is Ophion nigrovarius Provancher, which is reddish or dark yellow-brown, 1-inch long, with brown-tinted wings.
		Some species attack spiders or are hyperparasites (parasites that feed on other parasites) and, thus, might not be considered to be beneficial insects.
		Adult wasps can occasionally be found in the spring (March), attached to the trunk on a dead tree with their long ovipositor.
	insects.tamu.edu /fieldguide/cimg327.html (369 words)

	Ichneumon Wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ichneumon wasps parasitize other insects by laying eggs in their host’s larvae.
		The developing young wasps devour the larvae as they grow, often eliminating pests harmful to humans.
		The female of this species drills through bark with her long egg-laying structure, called an ovipositor, to deposit an egg on the larva of the giant wood wasp, Uocerus gigus.
	www.kwic.com /~pagodavista/schoolhouse/species/insects/ichneum.htm (67 words)

	Ichneumon Wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These solitary wasps are, for the most part, small and have more slender bodies and legs than do the familiar social and semisocial types.
		All ichneumons are parasitic on other insects; our most common local species belong to the genus Ophion and attack caterpillars.
		The eggs are inserted into the body of the host by means of the female's short sharp ovipositor (which, incidentally, can penetrate human skin).
	www.nhm.org /research/entomology/common_insect_la/ichneumon_wasp.htm (134 words)

	Desert Diary, 25 Oct 2002--Supernova (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many predators make their kills relatively quickly, but ichneumon wasps harvest flesh in an especially gruesome manner from a human point of view.
		Hatching, the wasp larva proceeds to feed on fat and connective tissue of the host's body, but avoids vital organs--until, that is, the host larva forms its cocoon.
		Eventually bursting from the empty husk, the wasp pupates and emerges to continue the cycle.
	museum.utep.edu /archive/arthropods/DDichneumon.htm (240 words)

	Ichneumon wasp - Ophion luteus - ARKive
		This slender parasitic wasp has a yellowish or orange coloured body with a distinctive ‘waist’ and a very short ovipositor.
		They are sometimes mistakenly called flies, but they are wasps, with two pairs of clear membranous wings and long antennae.
		There are 1200 species of ichneumon wasp in Britain alone and this is the largest family of insects known, with over 60,000 species worldwide.
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_freshwater/Ophion_luteus (85 words)

	Crusader War College: "The Ichneumon Wasp"
		Wretchard's piece "The Ichneumon Wasp" very rightly compares the appeasing Left as the administerer of the anasthetic to the Western Nations while the larvae of Islamic Terrorism feeds on the body.
		The ichneumon, like most wasps, generally live freely as adults but pass their larva life as parasites feeding on the bodies of other animals, almost invariably members of their own phylum, the Arthropoda.
		(The ovipositor, a thin tube extending backward from the wasp's rear end, may be many times as long as the body itself.) Usually, the host is not otherwise inconvenienced for the moment, at least until the eggs hatch and the ichneumon larvae begin their grim work of interior excavation.
	www.crusaderwarcollege.org /archives/000249.html (1255 words)

	Insect Pollinators
		Ichneumon wasps are reported as pollinators for striped coral-root, Corallorhiza striata.
		Syrphidae are a varied family, some are frequently mistaken for bees, others for wasps, and some are unmistakably flies.
		These photos show at least 3 kinds: the one on camas may be from the genus Microdon; the one on water hemlock may be a drone-fly, genus Eristalis, the larva of which is known as a rat-tailed maggot.
	www.nativeorchid.org /InsectPollinators.htm (280 words)

	Ecowatch - Ichneumon wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ichneumons are one of the largest and diverse families of wasps and can usually be recognised by their elongate, thin bodies, narrow waist, long thin legs and often bright colouring.
		Ichneumon larvae are parasites of the young of other insects, although some do parasitise spiders.
		The long ovipositor also allows the wasp to lay her eggs on otherwise unreachable host species such as wood boring larvae.
	www.ento.csiro.au /Ecowatch/Primary/hymenoptera/pages/enicospilus.htm (185 words)

	Ichneumon Wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ichneumon Wasp is the bee which generally carried out the thin body, the body is fl from ocher and brown and a fl spot are in a wing.
		The body is thin and the connection part with a chest is very narrow.
		Using a long egg laid pipe, eggs are laid to the main surfaces and inside of the body of the Lord of a hotel.
	www.asahi-net.or.jp /~ch2m-nitu/himebte.htm (99 words)

	Ichneumon Wasp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Like many wasps, the Ichneumon Wasp lays eggs inside the body of living caterpillars, ants and beetles.
		The larvae are still inside the body of the caterpillar, ant or beetle, so they grow there, eating the animal from the inside out.
		Wasps get rid of a lot of insects, so they are beneficial to humans.
	earth-cards.com /waspic.htm (82 words)

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