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Basically! What's this?

  • 03-04-2013 9:21pm
    #1
    breanach78
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  • #2
    TroutMask
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    Gadfly?


  • #3
    martinedwards
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    dead?


  • #4
    breanach78
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    Galfly its not, dead it is!


  • #5
    littlebug
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    Some form of ichneumon wasp I think. I don't know enough to know for sure... but looks like a squished Ophion?


  • #6
    breanach78
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    littlebug wrote: »
    Some form of ichneumon wasp I think. I don't know enough to know for sure... but looks like a squished Ophion?
    Thanks. No idea if it is it or not but looks like it. In any way strange? Do they sting?


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  • #7
    littlebug
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    I "think" some species do have a stinger which they use to paralyse whatever it is they are laying their egg in but I have no idea if they use them in defence.
    Had a few come to the light in a moth trap last year...and probably asked the same question then (can't remember the answer :o)


  • #8
    breanach78
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    littlebug wrote: »
    I "think" some species do have a stinger which they use to paralyse whatever it is they are laying their egg in but I have no idea if they use them in defence.
    Had a few come to the light in a moth trap last year...and probably asked the same question then (can't remember the answer :o)

    Thanks. Found this one in a light inside my house. I could find no reference to it until now.


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