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A hibiscus flower under ultraviolet light, shining for the polinators.

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A giant ichneumon wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus) uses her extremely long ovipositor to drill into a dead maple tree. Megarhyssa includes species with the longest ovipositors of any insect (up to 11 cm in M. macrurus and up to 14 cm in its cousin M. atrata), which also technically gives them the longest total length of any hymenopteran insect. The ovipositor is used to pierce deep into dead or dying trees to lay eggs on the larvae of a large wood-boring sawfly (Tremex columba).

Her ovipositor acts not only as a drill but as a sensory organ, and is highly sensitive to vibrations in the wood made by the sawfly larvae. Note how the translucent membranes of her abdomen stretch as she applies pressure by curling the base of the ovipositor, then retract when she withdraws to search for a different spot.

(Massachusetts, July 2025)

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[arte-artem-artibus]

Jules de Balincourt - Midnight Cowboy, 2017, oil on panel, 76.2 x 86.4 cm

[themakeupbrush]

Zuhair Murad Couture 2025

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Sora Choi | © Drew Vickers Vogue US (September 2025)

[humanoidhistory]

Shop window in Tokyo, 1970. Photo by Erwin Fieger.

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Stigmatopora argus, Spotted Pipefish. St Leonard's Jetty, Port Phillip, Victoria.

[itscontemporary]

Leo Villareal - Cylinder  (2011) White LEDs, mirror finished stainless steel, steel, custom software, electrical hardware 12 x 9 x 9 feet

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polly brown

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Marguerite Churchill, photographed by Max Munn Autrey, 1930.

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Krakow Poland - The Florence of the North

[dozydawn]

diamonds with garnet inclusions

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Manon Biernacki

[greenshirts-blog]

An Indian Hindu woman offers prayers to the setting sun by the Arabian Sea in Mumbai.

[kleinefreiheiten]

03.2014 Hamburg

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