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06/28/2009 05:18:16 PM · #1 |
Backyard, Pacific Northwest, has wings but just sat there on this blue plastic toy while I got right up in his face.
 
Anyone know what it is? Some kind of Ant? |
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06/28/2009 05:20:30 PM · #2 |
| By the back legs it looks like it's in the cricket/grasshopper family to me. Definitely not an ant. |
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06/28/2009 05:23:26 PM · #3 |
| Looks like a momma termite to me. |
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06/28/2009 05:25:59 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
Looks like a momma termite to me. |
That's what I am afraid of... |
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06/28/2009 05:27:57 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by aliqui:
Looks like a momma termite to me. |
That's what I am afraid of... |
I can't find a single picture of a termite where it's hind legs rise above its abdomen. I wouldn't let those little mandibles scare you. Cricket I tells ya! |
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06/28/2009 05:39:53 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I can't find a single picture of a termite where it's hind legs rise above its abdomen. I wouldn't let those little mandibles scare you. Cricket I tells ya! |
As soon as I read your reply I went out to see if he was still around (I took the shots yesterday) - sure enough he was sitting right there - long enough to get two more shots before he flew off - not sounding or flying like a cricket, but whaddo I know.
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06/28/2009 05:42:32 PM · #7 |
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06/28/2009 05:50:17 PM · #8 |
My search for an immature grasshopper isn't deriving great results...
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06/28/2009 05:51:48 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Parasitic wasp. |
I think Shannon is right. |
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06/28/2009 05:53:57 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by scalvert:
Parasitic wasp. |
I think Shannon is right. |
Yep - very close match...
Thanks Shannon! You da man. Da BUG man. :) |
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06/28/2009 06:39:08 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I can't find a single picture of a termite where it's hind legs rise above its abdomen. I wouldn't let those little mandibles scare you. Cricket I tells ya! |
As soon as I read your reply I went out to see if he was still around (I took the shots yesterday) - sure enough he was sitting right there - long enough to get two more shots before he flew off - not sounding or flying like a cricket, but whaddo I know.
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Yeah, I had one of those sitting on my wall a couple weeks ago. He was clearly alive, moved his antennae when I blew on him, but wasn't in a hurry to go anywhere. The next day he was still there. The next evening he was belly-up on the deck... |
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06/28/2009 06:39:17 PM · #12 |
| Really? No wings, different legs, are you sure? |
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06/28/2009 06:44:35 PM · #13 |
| Go to whatsthatbug.com they have a pretty extensive collection of bug photos and, if you can't find it, you can email them and usually get a response. |
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06/28/2009 06:58:45 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
Really? No wings, different legs, are you sure? |
No doubt. You can see the wings folded back in Art's last posted photo. |
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06/28/2009 08:38:21 PM · #15 |
I like bugguide.com for this typt of thing.
Definitely looks alot like the Short-tailed Ichneumon Wasp - Ophion
SMART people here!!
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06/28/2009 08:39:11 PM · #16 |
Ya, the new pictures definitely make me think wasp. I was thinking along the lines of an Ichneumon like dacrazyrn.
Message edited by author 2009-06-28 20:39:42. |
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06/28/2009 09:43:53 PM · #17 |
| Yeah, that's the bug I saw. It makes sense; it was sitting a few inches from a woolly-bear caterpillar so had probably laid eggs in it. |
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