Anybody an Insect Enthusiast?

[freshmtt]

Anybody here on PC that likes bugs and could identify a flying insect with a photo if I supply one?

I have tried searching on the Web for a picture of hornets, Yellow Jackets, etc.. and cannot find anything close to what I have captured in my backyard.

I don't know what the hell this thing is as I have NEVER seen anything like this before. It almost looks like a dragonfly because it has a super long body, but it also has a very long stinger on it, and kind of looks like a Yellow Jacket, but the pics I found on the web show the Yellow Jacket has a fatter body than what I have found.

I have seen them flying around in my backyard and we do have a problem with Wasps, so I thought it was just a long wasp of some sort, but one of them was sitting in grass, so I stunned it with my foot and picked it up by its wings and have captured it so to speak inside a plastic baggie.

It has a very interesting body shape, its body is very long I would say almost 2 inches in length and the body is striped with black and yellow stripes and that is why I thought it was a yellow jacket but it does not look like any of the yellow jacket photos I have seen on the web, this thing I caught is much longer.

The Stinger is super long, the biggest stinger I have ever seen on something and the stinger must be at least an 3/4 of an inch long.

I am at work now, so I can't take a pic of it, but when I get home today I could post a close up pic of it and could somebody figure out what this thing is.

[hyo silver]

Well, whatever it was, I guess it will still be in the bag waiting for you when you get home.

[qbee42]

Post a picture. The long "stinger" is almost certainly an ovipositor, used for laying eggs. Many wasps use these to place eggs in opportune locations, such as on worms inside of trees.

Tom

[airportkid]

Originally Posted by hyo silver

Well, whatever it was, I guess it will still be in the bag waiting for you when you get home.

Or if it ISN'T in the bag, you'll have to sell the house! What you've described sounds like something that got away from a John Carpenter movie set.

[freshmtt]

Originally Posted by airportkid

Or if it ISN'T in the bag, you'll have to sell the house! What you've described sounds like something that got away from a John Carpenter movie set.

LOL!!, It almost looks like something out of a movie, I have never seen anything like that before. It looks like a cross between a dragonfly and a wasp. It is tightly closed up in a ziplock baggie inside the garage. After 24 hours it was still not quite dead and still moving around a bit in the baggie.

[Godiva]

Could it be some sort of wasp predator?

[KayakerNC]

Originally Posted by freshmtt

LOL!!, It almost looks like something out of a movie, I have never seen anything like that before. It looks like a cross between a dragonfly and a wasp. It is tightly closed up in a ziplock baggie inside the garage. After 24 hours it was still not quite dead and still moving around a bit in the baggie.

Obviously the EMF radiation from your Prius has caused nature to go bonkers in your back-yard. The first of many mutations, don't sleep in THAT house.

[freshmtt]

Here is the bug,,
Sorry but the pics really are not good, our good digital camera is broke and I had to use an older camera that does not have a zoom lens.




Sorry, these are really blurry. But maybe somebody might have some idea what this thing is..

[Godiva]

It's really blurry.

That almost looks like a locust or a grasshopper. They do have wings and can fly.

[freshmtt]

Originally Posted by Godiva

It's really blurry.

That almost looks like a locust or a grasshopper. They do have wings and can fly.

Yeah,, I'm sorry, I hate the old camera, It might be a locust??, I don't think I have seen one of those up close before, I'll have to google that and see what they look like, it is definately not a grasshopper as I have seen many of those and it does not have the grasshopper legs nor is it green at all. It is all brownish and yellow. It's head/face actually looks like a fly face.

I'm off to look at pics of locusts now, thanks for the suggestion!