Identify this bug.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We have these running around.

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[CJ]

We have these running around.

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It's a type of iknuman wasp. The long tube coming out of the abdomen is the ovipositor so that's a female. Can't tell from the photo but the egg would be laid deep inside the food plant OR parasitically in a grub of the target host.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We have these running around.

http://tinylittlelife.org/content/image ... .thumb.jpg[/imgc]

It's a type of iknuman wasp. The long tube coming out of the abdomen is the ovipositor so that's a female. Can't tell from the photo but the egg would be laid deep inside the food plant OR parasitically in a grub of the target host.

They like climbing into and out of our tubular bells windchimes. Strange to look at.

[Cwazy Cat Lady]

We have these running around.

http://tinylittlelife.org/content/image ... .thumb.jpg[/imgc]

It's a type of iknuman wasp. The long tube coming out of the abdomen is the ovipositor so that's a female. Can't tell from the photo but the egg would be laid deep inside the food plant OR parasitically in a grub of the target host.

Good Job, CJ... BTW I think it's Ichneumon and a parasitoid...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Where's a good WTF site for bugs? I had one show up on my desk last night and, despite me having seen a bunch of weird shit in my time, it is no longer recognizable.

[cowiz]

It is a bug.

Not too tricky people

[Calilasseia]

You rang?

This one is quite a large site, covering all insect orders, though it tends to specialise in American insect fauna. It does sometimes illustrate insects from other countries though.

Anyone looking for some sites specialising in UK insects, here's a brace of them:

UK Moths ... complete with Systematic List

UK Butterflies

Species List for Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)

British Dragonfly society

Dragonflies & Damselflies from my locality

Since there's an upper limit of 10 URLs per post, I'll have to put the next set of links in another post ...

[Calilasseia]

Some more UK insect related websites:

British Hemiptera - comprehensively illustrated, includes full checklists for Heteroptera, Auchenorrhyncha and Psylloidea, click on any name with a link to be taken to an illustrated page for that species

UK Ladybird Survey with species checklists, including downloadable PDF identification sheet

Diptera Information Site (actually covers world Diptera, but has an extensive UK section)

[Calilasseia]

Some more sites of interest include:

Jumping spiders of the World - a project to provide full taxonomic, ecological and identification information on the entire world's known species of Salticidae (jumping spiders) ... these are the tiny cute ones, by the way, that have "faces"

Jumping Spiders of North-West Europe (illustrated)

List of every spider Genus on the planet

Solifugids of the World (yes, its' the infamous Camel Spiders!)

And for the Australians here, how about a page devoted to Huntsman Spiders of Brisbane?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Okay, now you're starting to bug me.

[Dasein]

anyone know what my moth is?

[Animavore]

Cybermoth?

[Dasein]

Cybermoth?

eh...nope, just traveled the entire entomology cyberworld with that moth and they all screamed with gusto that it wasn't a cybermoth. that was my first guess too. :p

[Animavore]

It looks mental.

What is it?

[Dasein]

It looks mental.

What is it?

I don't know!

it's a visitor to my porch, but all of my googling has done nothing to define it.