What is this?

[Sparks!]

In the picture, buzzed up to me today and landed on my van about an inch from my face

It looks like a cross between a praying mantis and a dragonfly

I have no idea what it is, neither does my mum.. just curious really!
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Looks a bit like a Thread Waisted Wasp.
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[FreshAL]

some fuck awful nasty insect with a big prong that injects eggs into your brain. The larvae are going to eat you from the inside out.


Ride free, stunt performing larva food dude



I hate things with probes

[Sparks!]

[Mynameisdann]

liability, thats what it is

[Poseidon]

looks like it's got a thread type tail. My mind went to mayfly
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[BenR]

Looks like a wolf fly, the thing sticking out of it's arse is to inject it's eggs into other insects, snails & the like.
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[Sparks!]

Can't find any pics of a wolf fly, but it does look very simlar to some Mayfly's.. although still looks different, but mayfly is getting closer still.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Sabre Wasp

https://www.cornwalls.co.uk/photos/data/media/8/wasp-thing.jpg

https://www.cornwalls.co.uk/photos/img1711.htm
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[Sparks!]

Thats it! Awesome.. are they rare? I've never seen or heard of them before
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Common, apparently :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3033.shtml
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[Mudskipper]

[Mudskipper]

[Blackwolf]

that ovipositor thing can go through an inch of wood!
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[Mudskipper]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Mudskipper]

[Phoenix]

It's an Ichneumon fly, they lay eggs inside caterpillars which then eat them from the inside out while alive and finally emerge and cocoon themselves all around, nasty gits.

That Sabre wasp is slightly different (lay eggs into wood not caterpillars), can't tell what yours was, could be either, there's lots of species of Ichneumon all looking similar.