These female wasps, though intimidating to see, do not sting. In these photos, the females are inserting eggs into a certain kind of fungus that the larvae will eat all winter, before emerging next year to repeat this cycle. Obviously if this is happening on a standing tree, it doesn't bode well as it means the tree is rotting inside. These females in this photo have less than 27 days left of their short little lives.
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