This tree is the preferred host of a wood wasp, 'Anaxyelidae' which lays its eggs in the smoldering wood immediately after a forest fire.

Its common name is steely-blue wood wasp because of its colour.

Three families are strictly xylophagous, and called "wood wasps", and one family is parasitic.

Just the occasional creak of beam or floorboard, and the odd muffled scrape of a wood wasp building its nest up under the eaves.

Sirex is a genus of wood wasps in the Siricidae family.

The infestation through wood wasps does not assume greater dimensions and is, compared with other pests, almost insignificant.

Fragments of mycelia can be spread by wood wasps (genus Sirex).

The suborder Symphyta includes the sawflies, horntails, and parasitic wood wasps.

The female wood wasps or the wood-boring wasps lay its eggs inside the pine trees.

Researchers and scientists have been inspired by the ovipositor of the female wood wasp.