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Posted By: Snodvan Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 5:27pm
Just curious
About 30mm long and walking on inside of a window

Snod

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Posted By: diggingdeeper Re: Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 5:54pm
I think its a thick headed fly (Conopidae).
Posted By: Habdab Re: Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 6:08pm
It looks like an Ichneumon wasp (Amblyteles armatorius) It's a parasitic Wasp.
Posted By: granny Re: Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 6:55pm

If you don't find an answer , contact these.

http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/gallery/heteroptera/Miridae/miridae.html

Yours seems quite long for most of the above specimens listed.
(insect , that is)

If it's French, KILL IT ! Good luck
Posted By: granny Re: Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 6:57pm
Habdab is right.. well done Habdab

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Posted By: Snodvan Re: Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 7:03pm
THAT looks like the beastie
Quite pretty really

Thanks all
Snod
Posted By: diggingdeeper Re: Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 7:57pm
Excellent, its lack of a sting threw me into thing it was a pretend wasp.
Posted By: Habdab Re: Insect - what is it - 25th Jun 2016 10:06pm
Its length depends if Snodvan was including the antenna in his/her measurements. They can be almost as long as the body, thereby doubling the length.
Posted By: lashs Re: Insect - what is it - 26th Jun 2016 12:36am
It's a locust , someone close May have lizards to be feeding them to an it's escaped . Too cold to have them in this country to survive for long
Posted By: Snodvan Re: Insect - what is it - 26th Jun 2016 10:41am
Nothing like the many locusts I have seen in Africa. I reckon it is the parasitic wasp. The 30mm I quoted was the body --- those long antenae add more

Snod
Posted By: Habdab Re: Insect - what is it - 26th Jun 2016 3:24pm
Besides being far too short for it to be a Locust The colour is completely different. The neck on a Locust is quite thick whilst the neck on this Wasp is almost none existent. Also it doesn't possess the heavy musculature of the Locust's hind legs.
I kept and fed Reptiles for many years and never saw a Locust that looked like this.

Sorry lashs, it's an Ichneumon Wasp.
Posted By: BandyCoot Re: Insect - what is it - 27th Jun 2016 1:47pm
Quick guide, a locust looks like a grasshopper. That aint no grasshopper. Parasitic wasp is right.

nono
Posted By: diggingdeeper Re: Insect - what is it - 27th Jun 2016 4:19pm
Originally Posted by BandyCoot
a locust looks like a grasshopper


A locust is a grasshopper.
Posted By: BandyCoot Re: Insect - what is it - 28th Jun 2016 2:40pm
Originally Posted by diggingdeeper
Originally Posted by BandyCoot
a locust looks like a grasshopper


A locust is a grasshopper.
And that will be why it looks like one I should think. FFS
Posted By: diggingdeeper Re: Insect - what is it - 28th Jun 2016 3:09pm
Originally Posted by BandyCoot
Originally Posted by diggingdeeper
Originally Posted by BandyCoot
a locust looks like a grasshopper


A locust is a grasshopper.
And that will be why it looks like one I should think. FFS


That's what I was thinking, great minds eh?
Posted By: jeremycorbon Re: Insect - what is it - 26th Sep 2016 5:55pm
the tip of the body is different colour in both pic`s. by the size this could be one of the super wasps which are killing off the worlds Bee poulation. Was it very aggresive? cheers
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