Giant Ichneumon Wasp (Megaryhssa macrurus) Ovipositing
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- 10th August 2013 3:47 pm.
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The ovipositor appears as a single filament, but it comprises three filaments. The middle filament is the actual ovipositor which is capable of drilling into wood. This middle filament looks like a single filament, but is made of two parts. These parts have a cutting edge at the tip. They interlock and slide against each other. Although very thin, it is a tube and the egg moves down the minute channel in its center during egg laying. Two other thin filaments serve as protection for the ovipositor. They arc out to the sides during egg laying.
The ants are like "uummmm we're gonna just go on about our business & let homegirl do her, she looks like she wants to be alone."
p.s. that is fascinating that a Wasp could have an appendage that can go through wood so that she can lay her egg in a Woodwasp cacoon, so that her offspring can survive by eating it. To top it off they use their antennae to guide them to the exact spot to start drilling. (the precise spot of Woodwasp larvae) #natureatitsfinest
Excellent encapsulation of the "hunter of dragons" natural history (with bonus ant impersonations).
I have been fascinated with this wasp since I first saw one a couple years ago while doing yardwork. I couldn't get real close and it escaped after only a few seconds, but it is quite unique and wild looking! Although they look terrifying, they are harmless. Very excellent video of a beautiful and docile creature!
Thank you for your kind words Barrett. These wasps are real shy. I was using zoom to film it. The tree she was ovipositing was right smack in the middle of a forest path popular by runners. I have to admit without the sensitivity and respect of the runners I would never be able to record this. All of them kindly changed their course as soon as they realized what I was filming.
Thank you for your kind words. This wasp indeed is one of the "athletes of nature" with its extraordinarily long ovipositor. Hard to observe close. One needs some real good butterfly binoculars or a camera that can zoom from afar.
Come to my porch in Illinois. I got my face right up next to one with another one close by. Fascinating watching them do this!
Hence why I'm here trying to figure out what I saw. I've never seen anything like it but these 2 were far from shy! I live in a small down and they were on my dead tree right in my front yard by my porch
I was able to get real close and I just stood there and watched the whole thing
I have always been fascinated by the ichneumon wasp ever since I saw David Attenborough's documentary. But what I don't understand is whether the wasps I see here and the parasitic wasps I saw then are the same because their reproductive rituals are drastically different from one another.
What you have seen in Attenborough's excellent documentary is most probably a caterpillar hunter. Here you see a wasp hunting on another predatory wasp therefore it adds an extra trophic layer in the food chain. You can learn more at: naturedocumentaries.org/3843/giant-ichneumon-megarhyssa-macrurus-ovipositing/
Imagine one of these 20 foot long outside on the roof while you sleep pumping its killer larvae into you
Yes! That's exactly what it would be like if we scale it up to ours.
You need some big scissors
How did wasp find out the exact place to drill while wood wasp larvae is in developing state (almost 0 activity)..??
Also how did it drill throw the hard surface of wood ??.....damn nature is the biggest engineer..
Drilling happens with the help of enzymes secreted at the tip of the ovipositor. Enzymes digest wood. You can learn more at: naturedocumentaries.org/3843/giant-ichneumon-megarhyssa-macrurus-ovipositing/
How does it find the exact location of the prey? I would love to know the answer as well! :) :)
Science would say it’s evolution, or adaption, but I believe it’s of intelligent design. I believe both science and spirituality or “religion” work hand in hand. The world is too complex and complicated to be created in a soup of chaos. Just as an example, a single strand of DNA is too mathematically complex to be random. It would take a mathematic impossibility for it to have randomly developed the mathematical complexity DNA’s code has. Nature is a good example things don’t happen randomly. Ants made Darwin question his own theory of evolution. That’s the key word “theory”, since evolution is still just a theory. Darwin never believed in evolution either. History makes it seem as if Darwin only believed in evolution. But again, he understood it as a theory.
@@theprophet_-__cxvii__-_8693 Could`nt agree more - why not have a creator(s) initially, and then evolution takes over.
@@andrewwatson4516 Because there is no evidence of a creator, science requires rigorous testing and evidence. Most people who speak about intelligent design dont understand science, no respectable scientist believe in intelligent design not even the religious ones.
At the beginning it looked like a big hairpin put through the middle of a wasp, so fascinating to watch
Giant Ichneumon i choose you! Gotta catch em all Pokémon!
Absolutely amazing.
Well this is a nice video but I think this is a failure I think this wasp failed dramatically I think the photographer needs to realize what is supposed to happen because it did not happen in this video
Does it have xray vision? How can it find the larva. Doubt the larva makes noise and movement .
It's highly specialised antenna and feet sense hollow opening and movement inside the wood. Fascinating.
yea
One of the freaks of nature.
Really mind boggling
How did the new one come out? Did it make a new hole or any other way?
Exactly what I was thinking
Brilliant video
Thank you!
Whoa, didn't know, the ovipositor is such a complex organ.
Yeah, um, im just gonna stay inside, absolutely amazing but Imma chill in here. Forever
I just watched a bug nut in a tree ty RUclips
It's actually drilling or penetrating that wood and into other larvae and laying eggs in them... Ikr it's fucking scary like how does it know!
@@rencarb3045 nature is scary
@@doodlegames4576 it's everything and we have to accept its ways and often even animals of the same species don't hurt one another but fight only honorably maybe us humans should learn from nature...
Penguins slap but could easily fuck shit up with their sharp beaks.
They wouldn't do that to their own species.
Insects on the other hand don't give a fuck about coexistence it's all cold as ice and no emotions or mercy.
Some of them would be better off extinct like mosquitos.
All those do is cause problems for most species and spread diseases and death.
Superbe, bravo
Merci! :)
Wasp vaike vend Anna sonum poistele. Ja poisid argu kartgu issi nokkut pikk ja ilus kui emme seelik
How is the egg propelled down the ovipositor tube?
excellent question. there has to be a peristaltic movement moving the egg down the ovipositor sandwiched between the two hard sheaths (two brown structures guiding the ovipositor). that is my hypothesis. needs testing :)
Orgasm.
Like pooping.
There's another video out here that explains what's happening and it actually works I think this wasp failed miserably
I saw the prey item of one of these today, a Pigeon Tremex Horntail
did it look like this? vimeo.com/203048674
4:50 noh poiss kui arkad siis saada sonum Perse augu radio info spaceile Olen elus ja terve
i wonder how it evolved to do that
Excellent question. Tapping into a resource that no others can reach must have provided a great selective advantage. How this predator-prey arms race started? We must turn the microphone to an evolutionary biologist.
お腹の先の透明な袋の中がピクピク動いて凄い産卵シーンですね。😆☀️人間がこのポーズしたら辛いですね。😅
I have so many questions
Naturally!
Nice Megarhyssa parasitic wasp! Best wishes from Ukraine!
I’m not even sure I know what I just saw.
You are most certainly not alone. You can learn more at: naturedocumentaries.org/3843/giant-ichneumon-megarhyssa-macrurus-ovipositing/
@@NatureDocumentaries Fantastic!!
@@TheEutrophication Thank you! I am glad to share this once-in-a-lifetime-ish footage with folks like you.
@@NatureDocumentaries I really love this world and more i learn about it, more i want to learn. It's a bit creepy sometimes (for example ampulex compressa), but so fascinating too!
@@TheEutrophication Oh yes, the emerald jewel wasp is a star phenomenon indeed!
No on kuradi first Lady koorik kova sellel planeedil.. no mine mu noku sisse siis nalja saab
That odd wasp is stinging the fuck out of that poor tree
Angel: God look what I made
God: okay what does the tail do?
Angel: I don't know
(3 weeks later)
Angel: I figured out what the tail does
God: what?
Angel: give you nightmares
Hmmm... Don't know what to say...
Without Mr Edinburgh telling me what's going on I don't really know what I am seeing. Nor do I understand it. I really do love my docky walkies and nature!!
何をしてるのかいっさいわからない😭
Em português legenda
kewan opo iku?
Itu tawon
Megarhyssa
Just more of a reason to stay in the house.
Nature's syringes.
Glad it only oviposits into wood and not humans... I hope.
😕 what the????????
I know...
سبحان الله
Subhanallah
Oh My GOD no no no nope, what's she about to DO to herself? oh God can't watch but MUST!!!
This species of wasp is interesting. Is this the same species that invade ant colonies and make them fight eachother?
I am not aware of such a wasp. I know a few beetles that have evolved to live with nomadic army ants: naturedocumentaries.org/9882/associates-eciton-burchellii-rettenmeyer-2009/
The Ichneumon Wasp
Nope, completely different species.
Me: Damn that’s a big D***
After: oh it’s Just for drilling and injecting to paralyze the prey
HDR1000P.
Daughter of 1 thousand "beaches"
(We must respect correctness rules)
Pure evil