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Posted: Aug/02/2008 7:11 AM PST
I've had an insect visiting me each day and I've never seen one like it. I'm wondering if anyone knows what this thing is? It's approx 1.5" in body length, it's wings appear to rotate in such a way that it can maneuver in any direction in a millisecond! It appears to have a stinger. It is sort of a gold/yellow in color with what looks like brown spots. You can hear it long before you see it and it moves like a stealth bomber! It's very fast and seems to like my English Ivy that is potted on my deck. What is this thing? |
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Posted: Aug/02/2008 8:56 AM PST
We have some doozy ol' bugs down here, but I sure don't know what you have from the description. Have you ever visited www.whatsthatbug.com? If you can't find it there, it probably doesn't exist. Take a look and see if you can find it and then let us know what it is 
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Posted: Aug/02/2008 11:11 AM PST
Thanx very much. I'm on my way there right now! |
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Posted: Aug/02/2008 11:27 AM PST
Well, I just visited "www.whatsthatbug.com" and didn't find my bud there. If anyone has any idea, I'd love to know what this thing is and if it is in fact a stinger. |
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Posted: Aug/04/2008 2:12 PM PST
Try going here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740 I noticed semerske suggested that site in a different insect question  Hope you can ID your little friend 
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Posted: Sep/03/2008 12:14 PM PST
Hmm, do you have cicadas where you are? We had a HUGE brown black and yellow insect that we thought was a hornet in our yard. It was carrying a cicada around one day. The two were so large together my roomate thought it was two hummingbirds! We looked it up and found it was an Eastern Cicada Killer wasp. Not aggressive to humans unless you try to squash it. Check out this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_cicada_killer |
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Posted: Sep/04/2008 6:57 AM PST
That would have to be a HUGE bug to carry a cicada! 
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Posted: Sep/04/2008 7:47 AM PST
Sounds like it might be a hummingbird moth? |
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Posted: Sep/05/2008 12:03 PM PST
We have the Eastern Cicada Killer wasp, too. I didn't know what it was till I saw it on a gardening show. I had just watched one in action. |
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Posted: Sep/05/2008 10:37 PM PST
Crazy huh?? Its burrow/nest was under our patio table. We moved the table.
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