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07/30/2005 01:00:26 AM · #1
My wife caught this insect in the house, it looks somewhat like some sort of a wasp, but it's strange. Does anyone have an idea what it is?.
The photo itself isn't much good as I don't have any macro lenses (I used 3 close-up filters stacked.

//www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3585969
07/30/2005 01:01:30 AM · #2
It's a winner in the next Macro challenge if you can preserve it :)
07/30/2005 01:01:41 AM · #3
dude, thats a wasp
07/30/2005 01:03:05 AM · #4
Looks like a digger wasp to me.
07/30/2005 01:17:58 AM · #5
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IcneumonWasp.png
07/30/2005 01:18:10 AM · #6
Mud Dauber
07/30/2005 02:12:30 AM · #7
Thanks Sher... I learn something every day. It looks exactly like that photo of the Mud Dauber, so I think that's what it is.
Cool.
Faidoi, my wife would kick me out of the house if I tried to preserve this thing in any way until the next macro challenge... who knows, maybe by that time I might actually have a macro lens to use. That was a pretty crappy photo, but hey, I got my answer, and fast.
07/30/2005 03:52:38 AM · #8
yep black and yellow mud dauber. there are lots of them in mississippi they're really docile compared with other wasps.
07/30/2005 08:36:32 AM · #9
In Gawga we call em Dirt Daubers
07/30/2005 11:41:13 AM · #10
Just a warning...from my own experience. Those big mud nests that they make in your eaves or inside garage etc...Do Not, I repeat, Do Not stand under them and break them open with a stick.

Unless, of course, you enjoy being rained on by 50 paralyzed spiders! I learned to wait until the cells have opened and the baby wasps are gone to knock down the nests.
07/30/2005 11:49:14 AM · #11
Originally posted by rex:

In Gawga we call em Dirt Daubers


yup...we call 'em that here in Louisiana, too. :)
07/30/2005 12:44:57 PM · #12
its a bug.
07/30/2005 12:49:58 PM · #13
Originally posted by swinging_johnson_v1:

its a bug.


LOL. However, it isn't really a bug.
07/30/2005 01:00:35 PM · #14
Originally posted by greatandsmall:

Originally posted by swinging_johnson_v1:

its a bug.


LOL. However, it isn't really a bug.


then it's a horse.
07/30/2005 01:40:35 PM · #15
yep, if not a bug or a horse maybe its a democrat
07/30/2005 01:48:19 PM · #16
Originally posted by David Ey:

yep, if not a bug or a horse maybe its a democrat

Could just be a politian of any variety: it doesn't appear to have a spine...
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