#tremexcolumba

[addicted2wasps]

I love Tremex columba so fucking much! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

September 1st 2025.

Reveler conservation area, Canada.

I also saw one of Tremex columba's nemeses: Megarhyssa macrurus (I believe).

[anthropocenesketchbook]

More drawings of horntails! They are beautiful and fascinating, especially their relationship with their fungal symbiont, which predigests the wood their larvae will eat. #klamathtrex2019 #goodfire #horntail #woodwasp #symbiosis #californiahorntail #uroceruscalifornicus #whitehornedhorntail #urocerusalbicornis #giantwoodwasp #urocerusgigas #pigeontremex #tremexcolumba https://www.instagram.com/p/B4k9bI9A3xp/?igshid=1dgvmluevtxqk

[addicted2wasps]

That horntail larva is doomed. Don't fall into the giant ichneumon "knock-knock" trap! While it is obvious that no dialogue happens in real life, Megarhyssa macrurus are able to detect their hosts (Tremex columba), through bark and parasitize them.

[addicted2wasps]

Work in progress on the project that I'm doing. Hymenopterans contributing to research.

1: Sphinctus serotinus curating a collection. (Wasp)

2: Bombus dahlbomii using a microscope. (Bee)

3: Tremex columba with a Malaise trap. (Sawfly)

4: Colobopsis sp. in the lab. (Ant)

These were fun to draw. I always enjoy anthropomorphizing insects.