For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt parasitoid: my linocut Megarhyssa macrurus, the long-tailed ichneumoid wasp or ichneumon wasp. It’s a parasitoid wasp and its “long-tail” is in fact it’s extremely long ovipositor which you can see looping from its back end into the tree. The wasp uses it to deposit an egg into a tunnel in dead wood bored by its host, 🧵1/2

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