Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Giant ichneumon wasp?

Posted by Xaver Frank on 25-06-2006 15:06
#1
Hello!

Two days ago this ichneumon wasp visited a pond meadow surrounded with conifers in the Wildlife Park Maas Schwalm Nette Rivers in Germany near the frontier to Netherlands.

foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/17/2259617/6264656439623435.jpg

Could it be the Giant ichneumon wasp (Rhyssa persuasoria)?

And there was one hymenopterous insect, too. Could you identify this too, and its sex, if it is possible?

foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/17/2259617/3330366462643839.jpg

Thanks a lot

Posted by ChrisR on 25-06-2006 15:22
#2
The top one does look like Rhyssa persuasoria ... the botton one is a Symphyta of some kind.
Edited by ChrisR on 25-06-2006 20:32

Posted by cthirion on 25-06-2006 15:40
#3
;)Ok, Chris!

Posted by Robert Nash on 26-06-2006 18:03
#4
And in German :p:p http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlupfwespen
Did you see signs of the host Sirex sensu lato (see glossary)?