A Closer Look - Critters (3)

Hummingbird moth








Hummingbird moth on bee balm. Yes, that’s a moth, not a bee! They even make a humming sound like the bird.

 
  



Female Ichneumon Wasp






  






A female Ichneumon Wasp
seeks a place to lay her eggs. Those long, thin tubes are not stingers! They are ovipositors (literally, egg-placers), which she drives into soft wood to find an insect larva. There are
about 100,000 species of
Ichneumon Wasps in the
world.



 






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