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Last August, I watched a Long-tailed Giant Ichneumonid Wasp laying her eggs in the branch of a hickory in Green-Wood. (Spoiler: that’s not her above.) But when she pulled her ovipositor out (first image), I thought, well, that’s rather short, isn’t it? I mean, for these Megarhyssa macrurus beasts. That shorter ovipositor, and the wing…