Uroceras gigas GIANT WOOD WASP or HORNTAIL

Description

Taxonomy Identification: Family Hymenoptera, sub-family Siricidae first named by Linnaeus in 1758

Colour: Wings are semi-transparent caramel brown. The head and thorax are black, while the legs, eyes and abdomen are dark-yellow with a black band on the abdomen.

Size: Body length 30-35mm, with sting 38-45mm. Wingspan 43-55mm

Comments & Applications:  This amazing sawfly is a wood-boring insect that attacks softwoods of freshly felled logs and unhealthy trees. Often mistaken for a hornet. The long sting-like spike on the abdomen of the female is actually the ovipositor used for laying eggs inside trees!  Very scarcely offered for sale.

Always a favourite with collectors and sought after by the art and craft industry, photography, framing, interior design, film, entertainment and educational purposes

Format: Supplied SET mounted on a pin with spread wings.

More Information: Wikipedia