Friday, June 20, 2008

Two insects I met in the woods around IMS, one an old friend. Any idea what the second, rather nightmarish one, is? About twice the size of the dragonfly, it had contorted itself into a pretzel to pump sap from a tree.
(16/7: it's a giant ichneumon [megarhyssa atrata] and ovipositing. Thx, K!)