#ichneumonids you mean everything to me i'm kissing your heads.

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looked up the wasp because i don't have every creature memorized and mien gott... skinny ass bitches. why are they so curved

You don't have every creature memorized? Tch. Tosses my hair over my shoulder. Amateur./j

Anyway Wasps are often pretty skinny lookin bitches as is!!! But regarding ichneumonids especially,

(photo by Blake Layton) They gotta have room in they abdomens for all that ovipositor!!!!!!!!!!! That big long thing off the back of the abdomen is just a giant "stinger," though not used to sting people (don't worry). Instead, ichneumon wasps use their bigass ovipositors to drill into drees.

(photo by Winnifred Williams) Now what's she doing that for?? Well I'll tell you. So these guys are parasitic wasps (as are a ton of wasps, actually), and their main targets are wood-boring larvae such as caterpillars, beetle grubs, or even other wasp larvae. The Wasp will hang out on the outside of a tree and wait to hear the sound of a larva chewing inside, then she'll jab her ovipositor in there and stab the larva with it.

Then she deposits her Egg into that larva, where it will eventually hatch and eat the larva alive :)

Isn't that awesome!!!! Isn't that cool!!!!

(photo credited in picture - Thomas Whelan)

Doesn't that look obnoxious as fuck!!!!!!!!!!