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21-07-2009, 11:27 AM
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| |  large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
My wife found this creature on a tarmac road very early this morning. When i went to look for it, it had gone. She took a photo on her phone, but i can't upload it to the site because 'the image is too small'. I have it on my pc and can email it to anyone who is interested.
Basically it is:
3 to 4" long overall
has an orange head, thorax and large wings (wings longer than body)
wings have the shape of a large sage leaf!
yellow segmented abdomen
wings have red tips
6 orange/red legs
RED EYES on side of head, head same width as body
has a thick smokey grey line along centre of top of each wing
has a large smokey grey patch on thorax
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21-07-2009, 11:52 AM
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
Hi BG,
Can you not resize the image to 800x600 pixels. If so then you should be able to load up the image into the Gallery then.
No idea what it could be from the description, but welcome to WAB. 
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21-07-2009, 12:42 PM
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
You need to upload it to the "image library" - Wild About Britain Images Upload |
21-07-2009, 01:07 PM
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Gonad  I have it on my pc and can email it to anyone who is interested. | Hi BG, welcome to WAB. I will send my email address to you in a Private Message. Email it to me and I'll upload it for you.
To me, it sounds like an ichneumon wasp - perhaps an Ophioninae sub-family member, or a dragonfly of some description. Sounds interesting. |
21-07-2009, 01:51 PM
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
Await no longer, and behold this... thing. I have no idea! 
It almost looks like something... aquatic?
Last edited by Jason Green; 21-07-2009 at 01:56 PM.
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21-07-2009, 02:10 PM
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
Thanks form uploading the picture Jason. My wife assures me that it moved and is not a child's toy! Walkington is 15 miles as the bee flies from the East Yorkshire coast. The bug was under a tree on a tarmac road (to keep warm?) at 5.30 this morning. By 6.30 it had disappeared. The village is surrounded by arable farmland. the eyes are definitely red and bulbous. |
21-07-2009, 03:24 PM
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
I wonder if it came in fruit, looks tropical Orthopteran to me!
My son worked on a Saturday market when a teenager for a while, brought home a bunch of bananas from which ran a huge colourful cockroach! I managed to capture it but it ran very fast, took it to the police station. They sent it to a vet for identification.
Janet |
22-07-2009, 07:31 AM
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| |  Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
HOW EMBARRASING! JUST GOT A REPLY FROM THE ROYAL ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY -IT'S ACTUALLY 7" LONG AND FROM WOOLWORTHS!
i'VE TOLD MY WIFE TO 'NUDGE BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHING' IN FUTURE.
SORRY TO EASTE EVERYONE'S TIME BUT THANKS FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE.  |
22-07-2009, 07:54 AM
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
At 7 inches long I'm not sure I would have nudged it  
Interesting post nevertheless 
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| | | Re: large orange/red flying insect in East Yorks
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