insect id?

[UncleChester]

You might want to PM View Profile: JeffreH - Frog Forum to make sure he sees this, he's quite amazing when it comes to bugs. Or put it on the ID request area of Welcome to BugGuide.Net! - BugGuide.Net, they're also pretty darn amazing over there.

It may be impossible to id to species level from the pic.

[LilyPad]

I was thinking the pic was not so great also. Someone suggested a sawfly (ironically it landed next to our saw hahaha) Thanks for the advice

[JeffreH]

It isn't a sawfly (close, but not quite) - but a female parasitic wasp ('Parasitica') who might be searching for an oviposition site. Probably in the family Ichneumonidae.

About how large was it? And where was it found, specifically? As in, is that bark that it is on? And if so, what tree species? It is not uncommon for Ichneumonids and related species to bore through wood to find hosts.

She's beautiful, by the way! =)