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At over 50 meters in length, the ichneumoplods are among the longest--and many would insist most visually impressive--of the flying saurthropodian pollinators known collectively as Apocrititans. Buoyancy is provided by an anatomically integrated musculoskeletal network of vascular pneumatic sacs filled with electrolytically produced hydrogen gas, enabling aerobatic feats otherwise impossible for these massive animals even in the reduced gravity of their megafloral homeworlds. Reproductive parasitoids like all Apocritans, ichneumoplods bore into the woody boles of flowering megatrees to paralyze and lay their eggs in larval buprestodontids sheltering beneath the bark. The long, coiling tail stinger wrapped around the repeatedly bifurcating hind limbs often lends an impression of deceptive multipedality to these hexapodal dinowasps.

Diplodocus x ichneumon wasp hybrid:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumo…

Probably distantly related to both

and

It's subtle, but I tried to imply some Sinosauropteryx and Kulindadromeus in the genetic makeup. There's also a bit of hornet moth (versus true hornet) and maybe even some snake and pangolin in there.

Description
At over 50 meters in length, the ichneumoplods are among the longest--and many would insist most visually impressive--of the flying saurthropodian pollinators known collectively as Apocrititans. Buoyancy is provided by an anatomically integrated musculoskeletal network of vascular pneumatic sacs filled with electrolytically produced hydrogen gas, enabling aerobatic feats otherwise impossible for these massive animals even in the reduced gravity of their megafloral homeworlds. Reproductive parasitoids like all Apocritans, ichneumoplods bore into the woody boles of flowering megatrees to paralyze and lay their eggs in larval buprestodontids sheltering beneath the bark. The long, coiling tail stinger wrapped around the repeatedly bifurcating hind limbs often lends an impression of deceptive multipedality to these hexapodal dinowasps.

Diplodocus x ichneumon wasp hybrid:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumo…

Probably distantly related to both

and

It's subtle, but I tried to imply some Sinosauropteryx and Kulindadromeus in the genetic makeup. There's also a bit of hornet moth (versus true hornet) and maybe even some snake and pangolin in there.