Fun Pigeon Tremex Facts For Kids
The pigeon tremex is one of the most well-known pests around North America (especially Colorado)! Be careful of this inch-and-a-half long (3.81 cm) insect, but not for the reasons you might think! This wasp is well known all across the Americas for its tendency to not only feed on dead trees and fungus, but also for its harmful impact on wood and bark. Not only do they destroy the wood from the inside, but they also lay many an egg from the ovipositor at the tip of the abdomen, which, when they graduate to larvae, destroy the tree from the inside....