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Megarhyssa macrurus? - Megarhyssa atrata - female

Megarhyssa macrurus? - Megarhyssa atrata - Female
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
July 5, 2009
Size: 7" including tail
Series of Megarhyssa macrurus (?) ovipositing on dead tree. There seemed to be two males and one female - the males primarily black in color, the one female brown and yellow. Males went back and forth, walking over the female. Several occasions of drawing the tail and/or ovipostior into the bubble, from both sexes. Wondering if the reproduction is separate, i.e., males deposit, then females deposit or vice versa.

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