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OK. once again I'm going off topic. - tough! I am not an entomologist, nor do I claim to be one. I have little interest in insects. BUT recently, these past few summers I would occasionally see this "thing" that while in flight would remind me of a (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) From your description, I think its a tiger beetle. They come in metallic blue as well as metallic green flavours. (URL) are active during the day unlike other beetles. They are fast runners and fliers. Maybe I am way off. If so, who knows what (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Rob, thanks for the try. As well as asking for help here, I sent out a few e-mails to entomologists who left their e-mail address on the web. to my pleasant surprise, one replied within a few hours to tell me that what I had seen was indeed a wasp. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) much restricted to yellow/brown/red/black color schemes. (...) Depends on the temperament of that specific wasp. Yellowjackets are typically mean through-and-through, hornets are typically ornery when you get too close to their nest, but many (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) WHO. WHO. *******WHO***** PUTS WASPS AS A WALLPAPER. (...) BUGS!!!!!!!! UGH!!!...!!! UGH!!!...!!! XXX...XXX X We have wasps at ventax, oh my god. The other day I went to go to the washroom, I open the door, unzip my fly, and there are THREE (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I took all my Lego out of storage today. Why? Bugs. Building outdoors, I have killed five paper wasp nests, made nice tunnel homes for dozens more wasps (apparently), squished a yellowjacket/giant bumblebee, and vacuumed up a centipede (slurp!) Nice (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jul-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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