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Re: calling all entomologist (OT - re:bugs)
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Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:21:43 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote:
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> 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
> standard variety garden wasp, with the hanging legs, and all.
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> http://www.donellis.com/images-wallpaper/wasp/wasp1600.jpg
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> BUT when it got closer to me it was not yellow and black but in fact a
> metallic (neon) blue. and I don't think it was a wasp.
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> I have tried to find this thing on line but unless I know what it is,
> the net is of little help.
From your description, I think its a tiger beetle. They come in metallic blue as
well as metallic green flavours.
http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpecies_LI.asp?imageID=18384
They are active during the day unlike other beetles. They are fast runners and
fliers. Maybe I am way off. If so, who knows what the bug is? I had a bug book
around, but I'm not sure where it is.
Rob
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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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| | calling all entomologist (OT - re:bugs)
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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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