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What is this?

***super_nova*** — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:51:57 GMT

I took this photo as I was talking some pictures in my garden and this thing just landed on the stake! I only snapped one photo and it was gone, wasp and all. But what is it?

Re: What is this?

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:58:26 GMT

Nice, looks like a dragon fly with a european wasp for dinner.

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***super_nova*** — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:12:23 GMT

I do not think it had dragonfly wings. It happned so fast, but I think the wings were only slightly longer than its body.

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bluecat*dancing — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:14:48 GMT

An alien

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Anonymous — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:21:49 GMT

An Asilidae / Robber fly, maybe?

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electric*mayhem*band — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:26:18 GMT

Not being David Attenborough, to me the eyes look wrong for a Dragonfly, plus their bodies are slimmer and more elongated than the one in your picture. The colouring looks wrong too. It's dull and lack lustre. Dragonflies are colourful, with a metalic sheen.

Re: What is this?

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:33:26 GMT

Yeah, I also thought the same but then perhaps a young dragonfly?

Then again they probably emerge as adults.

Edit - Think you got it Bear. aka - assassin fly

Re: What is this?

lind9650 — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 03:59:43 GMT

You are right. It is also called the bee killer and attacks even web spinning spiders.

Common brown robber fly.

Erica

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esayaf — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 04:14:55 GMT

We need plenty more of them. Then they can eat all the European wasps

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***super_nova*** — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 10:43:58 GMT

I wonder if they bite. I am sort of glad I do not have many of them here. It was huge. The wasp was pretty big one.

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debra9275 — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 22:47:53 GMT

Well done Kopes, I would never haved guessed it. I don't blame you for wondering what it was Nova.. It looks weird. At first glance I thought it was a spider/moth mutant.

Re: What is this?

kopenhagen5 — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:50:20 GMT

Can't take credit for this, enigmabear got it which led me to look it up.