Ichneumon Wasp (Lissopimpla excelsa) (1/3)

Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae

Lissopimpla excelsa  

The female Orchid Dupe Wasp has good reason to feel badly done by.

She's called a "dupe" because the male of the species gets outsmarted by a plant, an orchid that mimics the female reproductive parts sufficiently well to get pollinated when the male wasps "visit" multiple plants.

So not only is she unfairly called a dupe because of the male, but her potential mates are also off somewhere wearing themselves out cavorting with plants.

Reason to feel badly done by perhaps, but barging around stabbing any caterpillar she finds with that lance on her rear end and injecting an egg into them which will hatch and eat them alive from the inside is still a bit rough. And what did the caterpillars do?