Editor’s note: “Critters” features insects, spiders, snakes and other freaky/fun creatures unique to the Grand Valley. Have a critter you want discussed? Email crow@gjfreepress.com. Giant ichneumon ...

The long-tailed red wasp wandered all over an old log laying in the woods. Her antenna tapped the gray wood constantly as she wandered across the surface. Suddenly, she stopped, arched her abdomen and ...

The ichneumon wasps are solitary insects. They are parasites and parasitoids of other insects, especially of butterflies and moths. The difference between the two types is that parasites live in or on ...

Polebrook Airfield, Northamptonshire: Ichneumon wasps are usually encountered coming to light on summery nights. The Ophion scutellaris, however, is a spring specialist During the second world war, ...

Ichneumon wasps are common and widespread throughout most of the world with around 25 000 species described to science, however, the real number of different species is probably much more than that as ...

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Can you identify this insect? It is photographed perched on a lemon verbena plant in our garden. Feargal O’Neill, Co Galway I can: it is an Ichneumon wasp – a parasitic insect that lays eggs in the ...

18 June 1947: If there were more ichneumon wasps about there might be fewer of the elusive clothes-eating creatures in the house Kent If there is a creature that flies more elusive than the clothes ...