Pigeon tremex
The pigeon tremex is a big wasp-like insect with yellow and black stripes on its brown body. It has a spike sticking out of its back end. The female uses an extra long tube to drill her eggs right into tree trunks.
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Fun facts
A female puts only two to seven eggs into a tree.
After laying her eggs the female dies, and sometimes she stays stuck to the bark.
Giant wasps with very long tails can find its larvae deep inside the wood and lay their own eggs next to them.
It mostly picks dead trees, so it rarely harms healthy forests.
While laying eggs it can spread a fungus that makes the tree rot.
Most asked questions about Pigeon tremex
?What is the long spike on a pigeon tremex?
The female's long tube is for drilling her eggs into tree trunks.
?How big is a pigeon tremex?
Females are 2.5 to 3 centimetres long, and males are a little smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tremex columba
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Siricidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Siricidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Pigeon horntail
Where the facts come from
- Tremex columba (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Billmcmillan. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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