Antique Engraved Illustration Of The Giant Woodwasp. Vintage Illustration Of The Banded Horntail. Old Engraved Picture Royalty-Free Cartoon

Antique engraved illustration of the giant woodwasp. Vintage illustration of the banded horntail. Old engraved picture of the greater horntail. Book illustration published 1907. Urocerus gigas & x28;giant woodwasp, banded horntail, greater horntail& x29; is a species of sawfly native to the Palearctic realm and North Africa. Adults are usually between 10 and 40 millimetres in length. U. gigas is a wood-boring insect that attacks softwoods of freshly felled logs/unhealthy trees. The species lives in discrete tunnels, frequently filled with hard-packed coarse fibrous frass, hard to dig out from tunnels. The tunnels are large, round and discrete, between 6 and 7 mm in diameter. Urocerus flavicornis was once considered a subspecies of gigas but is now known to be a separate species.