actually it's an ensign wasp aka hatchet wasp and it's supposed to look like that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaniidae
supposedly they eat cockroach eggs so useful to have around if you are cockroach averse Alastair On 10 July 2015 at 17:24, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dan and Mark, > > Thank you for your responses. > I knew that PDML has that collective intellect! > (Is that an A.I.?) ;-) > > Mark, I think you were correct. > I think it is "mud dauber": > https://goo.gl/PI7Fnx > And it might be even an "organ-pipe mud dauber": > http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/organ-pipe_mud_dauber.htm > > Those photos show the same type of shape, - with a very thin "waist", and > thus it looks like a part of the abdomen is missing. > > Igor > > > > Mark C Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:18:12 -0700 wrote: > > That's odd looking - I am pretty sure it is a wasp - order hymenoptera (same > order as ants and bees). It looks to me like its abdomen is missing and it > bears the hind half of another individual's abdomen sticking into it's > thorax via a stinger - was it thrashing about as if it was wounded? Maybe it > lost a fight. > > > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > >> >> I was trying to photograph this visitor, but it was tricky for a >> combination of reasons, and after a few attempts (64 trigger actuations), I >> gave up and returned to what I had to do. >> However, I am still curious what this insect (I assume it is an insect) >> is. So, I choose to "Ask the Audience". >> >> Is it some type of a queen ant? http://42graphy.org/misc/_IR27045.jpg >> >> >> Igor >> >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
