Parasitic Wasp ( Gasteruption jaculator) Male, originally uploaded by Pipsissiwa.
Not your conventional yellow and black, ruin your picnic type wasp. However the tiny waist, eye shape and two pairs of wings are dead give-aways that this is indeed a wasp. It has an unpleasant but effective way of guaranteeing that its young will have food; it lays its eggs in another creature, usually a caterpillar, and when the eggs hatch they eat said caterpillar from the inside out. This is a male, as it has no ovipositor (egg laying tube) on the end of the abdomen.
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