Bug identification wasp or fly?

[Brodybreaux25]

Got another one I’m trying to identify, found a lot of them in our trap last night. Wings are nearly clear, eyes look royal blue, abdomen is very small with what looks like a fake stinger on the end. I’ve handeled a lot of them and haven’t been stung. Seems to prefer to walk than fly...

 

[Curlytails]

Got another one I’m trying to identify, found a lot of them in our trap last night. Wings are nearly clear, eyes look royal blue, abdomen is very small with what looks like a fake stinger on the end. I’ve handeled a lot of them and haven’t been stung. Seems to prefer to walk than fly...View attachment 210681View attachment 210682View attachment 210683View attachment 210684View attachment 210685View attachment 210686View attachment 210687View attachment 210688View attachment 210689

its some sort of fly. it resembles a paper wasp but i live in the uk so i havent got a clue. it is defintiely a fly of some sorts. a false wasp if you will

 

[CamrynTheCham22]

I do not think this is a fly. This looks like a black wasp, and we have these near where I live. The adult females are vicious when you get near their nest and I am fairly sure they bite, not sting. Someone I knew was bitten by one of these and they don't let go at any cost; it took some of my friend's skin off with it. About that comment that they would rather walk or fly, I agree. From what I've seen, they have been walking. I saw one on a boat and it was just walking across the deck.

In support of that information, that insect has the body setup of a wasp. Flies have a more put-together, barrel-shaped body. Wasps are more aerodynamic and their body segments are more spread out, like the black wasp specimen you posted of above.

 

[Bigsky]

This is a wasp. Flies, or Diptera, have one pair of wings. Wasps and bees, Hymenoptera, have to pairs of wings. The front and back wings are connected together with tiny hooks. Your wasp has a stinger, probably it parasitizes caterpillars or some similar insect. The stinger can be an ovipositor that is used to insert eggs into a host insect.

 

[andrearamirezo91]

You've got some crazy looking bugs around your area

 

[Brodybreaux25]

You've got some crazy looking bugs around your area

This is nothing, go look st that catapillar I posted the other day!

 

[andrearamirezo91]

This is nothing, go look st that catapillar I posted the other day!

Lol thats exactly what I was talking about! Them things were scary! Did you end up keeping them?

 

[Brodybreaux25]

Lol thats exactly what I was talking about! Them things were scary! Did you end up keeping them?

Yep, finding weird bugs is something my son loves so he’d have a fit if we didn’t see it through! It has moved into it’s cocoon phase since my last post. I think the last one we had took about a month to hatch...

I don’t think this kind actually spins a cocoon, he kind of shrank and the outside of his body changed its shape to what you see below then just kind of hardened off...

 

[CamrynTheCham22]

That's so wild. You're right, it looks almost like a cocoon. Its definitely something along those lines. But still, weird!!

 

[andrearamirezo91]

Yep, finding weird bugs is something my son loves so he’d have a fit if we didn’t see it through! It has moved into it’s cocoon phase since my last post. I think the last one we had took about a month to hatch...

I don’t think this kind actually spins a cocoon, he kind of shrank and the outside of his body changed its shape to what you see below then just kind of hardened off...View attachment 210766View attachment 210767

What a sweet little boy I love the curiosty! Make sure you keep us posted with that thing, I wanna see what it turns into!