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Published: 2008-08-19 02:12:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 610; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 6
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Cookoo Wasp...parasitic.......beautiful.....dead. Thanx to everyone helping me with the IDRelated content
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I can't tell you what species it is off hand (there are almost 300 species in the US and it would be hard to id without the specimen in hand), but I can tell you that it is a cuckoo wasp in the family Chrysididae. Most species are parasitic on wasp and bee larvae.
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wooowhoooo! yes! that IS it...
i'd actually gotten an answear on the BugGuide website...months later. thanx so much!
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i'm beginning to wonder! no one? has yet seriously placed it as anything specific. it's not hairy....not furry....not a fly...hmmm
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well it's definitely a hymenopteran of some sort. Not a fly cause it's got two sets of wings. Thinking maybe a sweat bee of some sort.
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so far? the basic info that i've gotten was that it was a possible Blue Orchard Mason Bee...and a possible parasite on wasps?? other info i'd read was that they really liked cherry trees.........hmmm
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interesting. Whatever it is its really cool
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would be great...even a bugsite i'm on isn't coming up with anything much
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whatta shoot!
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definately does...especially since it's a pocket camera! it's been a huge blessing for macro images...
this bee was just BEAUTIFUL though
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I could not find it in my guides but I think (maybe perhaps) it is a Bee Fly (family Bombyliidae). I base this on wing structure and shap as well as body shape. the color? Zero luck. Did the critter appear to have a beak or proboscis?
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try this link of another like it? [link]
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The color and texture look diffrent. Maybe it is and maybe it it ain't...
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See, I am usually no help so at least I am consistant...
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it's gone thru some ruffness so the face wasn't even photographable? but the tail end still had a 'stinger' on it........???
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I think I crossed the weevil and bee replies...sorry.
I agree with the Play-Doh weevil ID, the bee ID not so much.
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lol...no problem. i still haven't gotten anything on the bug ID site for the bee guy either
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Wow.. thats almost amazingly pretty for a bee like bug.. I'm terrified of bees but this sucker is actually beautiful.
I would probably still run from it, but hey least maybe not so fast? Hehe.
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lol...as pretty as this fellow was? i might not mind getting stung for more photos...lol
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*giggles* maybe it's like one of those mutant ones.. like in Spiderman? Then it might be useful..
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wellllll....if i start sticking to the ceiling or making odd 'rooms' using my spit? smack me with a fly swatter k? lol
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Fly swatter? This is the 20th century. I'll get out the electric bug zapper! mwhahahah
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maaaaAAan...i don't DO electrical shocks well.....
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