Dave McGrath sent me these pics today of an insect at Marshside earlier this month - I think I've seen the critter before down there, but tend to only really look closely at butterflies, coneheads, dragonflies and the odd bee...
Dave explains: "The wasp was seen at the Sandplant compound around lunch time on Sun 4th November and photographed by my mate Raf Lapoto with his phone!
Anyone any ideas on its ID?"
Nice looking beastie, can anyone tell us what it is?
It looks a bit like one of the species of parasitic wasp/ichneumon flies that I get in the moth trap at Dempsey Towers occasionally, but that's about as far as my knowledge of these things go.....
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mike bird wrote...
hi john,the insect could be a gall wasp of some sort.it appears to be perched on a gall on some plant. there are hundreds of these wasps, sawflies ect with most books just covering a few species.shall keep digging.
mike.
Posted by: mike bird | November 15, 2007 3:48 PM