Yo, where my Entomologists at?
Jimster
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Saw this fly in the back yard yesterday. Pls 2b ID-ful... Brown, furry, bee size, long needle ting looking like he packing enough disease to floor twenty-five motherf*ckers.
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Well, good luck getting it to play music for you, then. Looks like a cross between a gerbil and those flying balls from Phantasm.
Bzzzzzzzz
pfft.
that's nothing compared to this decepticon wasp i snapped, whatever it is...
Cool, I've seen these in my garden and they act a lot like Hummingbirds. I always wondered what they were.
it could be a sawfly. about 2 inches long with the needle? i had one similar in my kitchen last summer, but i think there are a few varieties bcos this one wasn't furry and was more black and yellow and wasp like. came out from behind the cereal box by the window sill and had me shook. i left it trapped under a pint glass to scare the shit outta my flatmate when he returned from work. sadly i didnt consider the combination of heat and lack of oxygen and the feller died. but better that than one of us dying i suppose.
we get them in our garden as well, in the mid summer months. they will size you up like the smoke monster.
If there are two things I'm scared of, the second one is now THIS.
Culprit id'd as the bee fly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombylius_major
Never seen one in the UK before. Although, I am from a place where dogshit is considered exotic.
The May Bug, yaoming ?
Sounds like stones hitting your window late at night.
Was that in the UK Neil? Reminds me a bit of the Russian Timber Wasps, which we used to get in the timber yard. They would thaw out once the timber warmed up in the UK and wake up hella pissed. Tennis Racket jobs.
Had one already!