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Any insect experts in the room?
This (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a363/Deavonthedog/Thebug.jpg) monster came flying into my living room today!:shocked:
It really is an evil looking beastie!
Can anyone identify it please? I have never seen anything like it and have taken to calling it 'the scary thing'
Here (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a363/Deavonthedog/thebug2.jpg) is another view of it.
It has since flown away... so look out for it!:suspect:
It looks like some sort of Ichneumon Fly or parasitic wasp.
The long tail is an ovipositer - used for laying eggs in rotten wood, plants, caterpillars, whatever.... :)
My God...it didn't....gulp....sting you did it?
Are you aware of a strange shifting feeling under your skin? ;)
Sorry.....:)
Joe
Whoa that thing looks scary... please tell me that's a UK insect and I won't have to run and get my wife to kill it here in California. Here's hoping you got away sting free!
Peace,
Locker
Locker,
Not quite as big as the mosquito I shot in Alaska in '93.
Had to use the gun I bought along for bear. Customs wouldn't let me bring the mounted head back with me.
;)
:hihi:
Joe, it didn't get me! A parasitic wasp? That sounds truly awful.
I run a mile if I see a wasp, they are my biggest insect phobia and the bane of late summer.
To think I had a visitation from a common wasp's evil cousin.
<faints>
That looks like a flit shy to me :o
Greybeard 10-07-2005, 21:03 Looks to me like a Large Ichneumon, which in fact parasites the Giant Wood Wasp.
"It uses is immensley long ovipositor to lay its eggs in the larvae of the wasp"
So unless it thinks you're a wood wasp you should be safe enough :hihi:
Gasteruption jaculator.
About 1.5 inches long counting 'ovipositor'.
Found on umbillifer plants, but lava are parasitic on the grubs of solitary bees.
Completely harmless.
Believe me, I've read the book :cool:
Berberis 10-07-2005, 22:17 http://popgen0146uns50.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/commanster/Insects/Bees/SuBees/Gasteruption.jaculator.html
That looks menacing, did it fly back out or did you kill it?? :shocked:
Awwww . . . . Am I the only one who thinks it looks quite cute ?:rolleyes:
TheBlueDragon 11-07-2005, 10:02 Originally posted by Greybeard
Looks to me like a Large Ichneumon, which in fact parasites the Giant Wood Wasp.
"It uses is immensley long ovipositor to lay its eggs in the larvae of the wasp"
So unless it thinks you're a wood wasp you should be safe enough :hihi:
You are correct.
This is a picture of another.
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/Images/Hymenoptera/ichneumon.jpg
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Originally posted by saxon51
Gasteruption jaculator.
AKA a fly that looks really scary :rolleyes:
redrobbo 11-07-2005, 11:33 It doesn't look anywhere near as menacing in colour! In fact, it looks beautiful. Approx. how long is this insect?
DanSumption 11-07-2005, 11:39 Gasteruption Jaculator? That sounds like a good name for the Alien, or in fact anything else parasitic which bursts out of its host's stomach.
I used to know all sorts of stuff about parasitic wasps when I was a kid, mainly because I was a total-spider nut and lots of them feed on spiders (though not in this country) like the ones here (http://www.museums.org.za/bio/spiderweb/predator.htm)
Originally posted by owdlad
That looks like a flit shy to me :o
Aye, good shaft of wit there ;). Thats one crazy bug...
Joel
Berberis 11-07-2005, 12:15 Originally posted by DanSumption
like the ones here (http://www.museums.org.za/bio/spiderweb/predator.htm)
ARHH Kill it !!! :gag:
Greybeard 11-07-2005, 12:22 Originally posted by Mainframe
You are correct.
This is a picture of another.
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/Images/Hymenoptera/ichneumon.jpg
We get them in the house most years, plus a lot of other things. A swallow in the bedroom last week and the other day after getting that 'being watched' feeling I spied a young robin perched on the curtain pole !! :D
Originally posted by Greybeard
We get them in the house most years, plus a lot of other things. A swallow in the bedroom last week and the other day after getting that 'being watched' feeling I spied a young robin perched on the curtain pole !! :D
Where do you live, in a tree ?
Originally posted by Deavon
Any insect experts in the room?
This (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a363/Deavonthedog/Thebug.jpg) monster came flying into my living room today!:shocked:
It really is an evil looking beastie!
Can anyone identify it please? I have never seen anything like it and have taken to calling it 'the scary thing'
Here (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a363/Deavonthedog/thebug2.jpg) is another view of it.
It has since flown away... so look out for it!:suspect:
do u live in sheffield???
im keeping my eye out for them big beasts!!!!
the old jaculator must be my cousin, glad they christened me "premature" though and not gasteruption.
DanSumption 11-07-2005, 19:50 Originally posted by willman
the old jaculator must be my cousin, glad they christened me "premature" though and not gasteruption.
Does your middle name begin with an "E"?
Worked at wood yard and a Wood Wasp like that got into the office and one of the guys shut the office door and began a one man attack against the thing. He said it did not sting, don't know if it did but he killed it.
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