(1) The Persians did not worship wood and stone with the Greeks, nor the ibis and ichneumon with the Egyptians.(2) There are also jackals, wolves, the ichneumon and, possibly, a polecat.(3) They also are in competition for food with the swamp ichneumon , which preys on crabs.(4) They belong to the order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, sawflies, and ichneumons .(5) For him, the fiend that shook his faith was the ichneumon wasp , which lays its eggs inside the larvae of the horntail wasp.
