LMX Sirex was created in 1968.
Sirex woodwasp was created in 1793.
Sirex juvencus was created in 1758.
The sirex wood wasp is toxic to trees, but not to humans. The wasp injects a toxic mucus and a fungus while she is laying her eggs in the bark of susceptible pine trees.
Yes i found one today,im in trim co meath
Sirex wood wasps can be dangerous to pine trees. When a female wood wasp lays eggs. It drills one to six holes into the tree, lays an egg on each hole and fills them with mucous. Usually one hole is filled with fungal spores also introduced by the female. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae tunnel into the wood and feed on the fungus. The fungus and mucous kill the tree.
It could be a sirex wood wasp the female has a black body with orange legs, males the same but with orange band on the body.
There are many. Some have been around for long enough to be accepted as natural and desirable in the US environment. These include earthworms, honeybees, pheasants. Others like Zebra Mussels are generally unknown to the public as they are not usually visible. However the Zebra mussels cost million of dollars a year in maintaining water treatment systems and environmental damage.The USADA lists (for just animal invasive species:Africanized Honeybee (Apis mellifera scutellata)Asian Citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri)Asian Long-Horned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus)Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys)Cactus Moth (Cactoblastis cactorum)Chilli Thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis)Citrus Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora chinensis)Common Pine Shoot Beetle (Tomicus piniperda)Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis)European Grapevine Moth (Lobesia botrana)European Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar)European Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips typographus)Formosan Subterranean Termite (Coptotermes formosanus)Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis)Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae)Khapra Beetle (Trogoderma granarium)Kudzu Bug (Megacopta cribraria)Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Ceratitis capitata)Mexican Fruit Fly (Anastrepha ludens)Oriental Fruit Fly (Bactrocera dorsalis)Pink Bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella)Pink Hibiscus Mealybug (Maconellicoccus hirsutus)Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta)Russian Wheat Aphid (Diuraphis noxia)Silverleaf Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)Sirex Woodwasp (Sirex noctilio)Other Invertebrates Giant African Snail (Lissachatina fulica)Soybean Cyst Nematode (Heterodera glycines)Vertebrate Invasive SpeciesVertebrate species are animals with backbones or spinal columns. In some cases closely related species such as the hagfish which lack a spine but have a bony skull or cranium are included in the group. Example species include: bony fish; sharks; rays; amphibians; reptiles; mammals; and birds. Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis)Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus)European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)