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Day 243
What is this horrible monster??
August 29th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megarhyssa
She’s laying her eggs in the larvae of a wood-boring wasp. Wasps are kind of creepy that way.
Ha, I caught one of those for my 3rd grade bug collection growing up in South Central PA. Or I guess I should admit that my Aunt caught/killed it because I was terrified of it. I believe it’s a type of Ichneumon Wasp. I was the only one in the class that had one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumon_wasp
Well done, fellas! I just assumed it was something from outer space.
More awesome pix…
http://cirrusimage.com/hymenoptera_ichneumon_megarhyssa_fem.htm
Very impressed by the freak me out photo and the folks who figured this was a Giant Ichneumon Wasp – Megarhyssa greenei laying her eggs.
oh…so I guess it was not yelling out..”help me, help me” my bad.