What is this?

***super_nova***
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‎17-01-2016 01:51 PM - edited ‎17-01-2016 01:51 PM

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?

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kopenhagen5
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on ‎17-01-2016 01:58 PM

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

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***super_nova***
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In response to kopenhagen5

on ‎17-01-2016 02:12 PM

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
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In response to ***super_nova***

on ‎17-01-2016 02:14 PM

An alien

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Anonymous
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‎17-01-2016 02:20 PM - edited ‎17-01-2016 02:21 PM

An Asilidae / Robber fly, maybe?

electric*mayhem*band
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In response to ***super_nova***

on ‎17-01-2016 02:26 PM

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.

kopenhagen5
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In response to electric*mayhem*band

‎17-01-2016 02:29 PM - edited ‎17-01-2016 02:33 PM

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. Smiley Happy  aka - assassin fly

 

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lind9650
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In response to kopenhagen5

on ‎17-01-2016 02:59 PM

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

Common brown robber fly.

 

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esayaf
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on ‎17-01-2016 03:14 PM

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

***super_nova***
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In response to esayaf

on ‎17-01-2016 09:43 PM

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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