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Help identify this wasp/fly
One of these showed up in my garage yesterday it looks like a cross between a wasp and a dragonfly but has three long feelers or hairs out it's "rear end"
any one know what the name is? I've never seen one before.
thanks!!
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05-18-2013, 09:50 PM
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Looks like a species of May Fly.
Have two different species in this area and one looks like the picture and the other (and more common) like a large mosquito.
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Yeah, looks a lot like some mayflies. About how big is it?
That may be the Lash LaRue subspecies...
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05-18-2013, 10:07 PM
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Looks like some kind of Ichneumon Wasp to me. The wings seem too narrow for a Mayfly.
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05-18-2013, 10:11 PM
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The body is 1.5" and the tail "hairs" are another 3.5" it is long but slender and delicate.
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05-18-2013, 10:16 PM
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Looks like some kind of Ichneumon Wasp to me. The wings seem too narrow for a Mayfly.
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Yes! I believe you are right, but this one does have three separate hairs out of the tail. never seen or heard of one before thanks!
These things are amazing see this article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonidae
about their egglaying, boring through wood with their "tails"
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Yes! I believe you are right, but this one does have three separate hairs out of the tail.
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That has me baffled, too. I'm wondering if this is some kind of mimic species decked out to look like an Ichneumon. Tricky girl that Mother Nature.
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Grab hold of it and see what happens. Report back if you are still able to type.
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I was going to say that it looked like an Ammophila wasp or a type of mud dauber. Definitely a type of hymenoptera and definitely not a mayfly.
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That's what my brother would have done when he was a kid!
Not helpful or great advice but I know you were being humorous.
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That's what my brother would have done when he was a kid!
Not helpful or great advice but I know you were being humorous.
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Humorous????
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I can identify him... That's Carl.
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Looks like some kind of Ichneumon Wasp to me. The wings seem too narrow for a Mayfly.
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It does like like one type. They are parasitic and have a long ovipositors that they use to lay their eggs in a host insect. Sometimes they do the same in soft bark or rotten wood.
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I always heard of those referred to as tree wasps by my good ol' pop and grandaddy.
Not sure on the technical name. I never messed with them much. Just observed and moved right on along.
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It's the new IRS Spy Drone spying on Conservatives I think.
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