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I'll have to get a pic of the creepy red things that keep appearing in my house, make me shiver they do.. also saw my first humming bees at the weekend. Contender for best insect ever.

EDIT: Here you go..

They's evil, evil I tells ya

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Gregor Lenko There's a tree..., Mon 8 May 2006, 14:03, archived)

bee fly's are ace! I had not seen one until recently.

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mugatu, Mon 8 May 2006, 14:11, archived)

Agreed, They're also called Humming Bee Hawk Moths.

I stood and stared at it for what must have been minutes.

I saw another one today, but I'm not convinced it wasn't the same one :)

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Gregor Lenko There's a tree..., Mon 8 May 2006, 14:20, archived)

or even

hummingbird hawk moths (Macroglossum stellatarum)

apologies for lepidopedantry

www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3063.shtml

(prostheses, Mon 8 May 2006, 14:45, archived)

Not a problem, I sit corrected.

and you have more than earned my respect and admiration for the introduction of Lepidopedantry. Best. Made. Up. Word. Ever!

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Gregor Lenko There's a tree..., Mon 8 May 2006, 14:51, archived)

That looks like

some kind of parasitic wasp, possibly a ichneuman (sp?) fly or a sawfly.

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F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 8 May 2006, 14:24, archived)

If you didn't check the filename I offer you a round of applause.

That is indeed what it is, I've been told that they don't sting, but, I know people who have been stung by them so I'm still wary of them. More than anything it's the way they stare at me when I've trapped them in a glass for release outside..

\Doesn't like things with wings that sting..

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Gregor Lenko There's a tree..., Mon 8 May 2006, 14:37, archived)

I was about to ask how you knew that

but evidently you have the Knowledge of the Gods.

Woo to that.

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Albert the Mildly Deranged purveyors of nothing much since a year or two ago, Mon 8 May 2006, 14:39, archived)