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Kenn

14-Aug-10, 19:06

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Butterflies%20and%20insects/2010_0814Garden0010-1.jpg

About 2" /5 cms long , some sort of wasp?

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Butterflies%20and%20insects/2010_0813poolsBees0004-2.jpg

Damselle flies?

cherokee

14-Aug-10, 19:26

Hi LIZZ,

I'm just guessing at your first picture, but I think it's a Horn-Tail Wood Wasp.

Definetely not indigenious to Scotland; though rarely found in the South Of England. They are actually best known to come over from the Continent via lorries bearing goods such as fruit etc.

Totally unharmful though to humans, as far as I'm led to believe! Quite bonny critters; well, in their own way :o !

Kenn

14-Aug-10, 22:50

If it's not idigenous what has it been doing lurking in the garden all day?
I found one in my insect book that looks similar but again is not native to the area.

lingford

16-Aug-10, 11:24

it looks like a norwagian pine wasp,,we saw afew down at dunrobin castle yesterday,,:)

chaz

13-Sep-10, 11:14

We found one of these wasp like creatures yesterday, came on here to post and found this post with one already :) They are huge compared to a normal wasp.

spurtle

15-Sep-10, 09:41

We found one of these wasp like creatures yesterday, came on here to post and found this post with one already :) They are huge compared to a normal wasp.

We found several of these when cutting some conifers down. They look quite fearsome, but are harmless

DeHaviLand

15-Sep-10, 19:22

First one looks like a female giant wood wasp.