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Ichneumon Wasp

DateTue 2011-08-02

A female Ichneumon wasp, possibly of the genus Ephialtes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), ovipositing into a thistle flower-head (Cirsium sp).

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2011-07-31.

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