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18-10-2010, 10:22 PM
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| | | Biting cranefly lookalike ID please?
Hi,
My 1st post though I used to be on here a lot when I was teaching field studies! Thanks for all the past info.
Anyway last week what I took to be a cranefly (I didn't have my glasses handy) was flapping round me as I read in bed, and I could have sworn it bit me before I fell asleep. But decided I hadn't seen it correctly. Then my MIL said the same this week...
and today a welsh friend who often uses me to ID wildlife sent me a photo of what I think is the same insect. It stung or bit her husband when he tried to shoo it out the window - she's scared of daddy-long-legs.
Can anyone help ID it, please? 
Thanks,
CAt
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18-10-2010, 10:29 PM
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| | | Re: Biting cranefly lookalike ID please?
Hi welcome to WAB.
I am not the best person to identify your insect but it looks more like an ichneumon wasp than a crane fly to me. Someone should be able to i.d. it for you soon. |
19-10-2010, 01:09 AM
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| | | Re: Biting cranefly lookalike ID please?
Yes, it's an Ichneumon wasp, probably an Ophion species.  |
19-10-2010, 09:36 AM
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| | | Re: Biting cranefly lookalike ID please?
Ah, fantastic, thanks, I just wasn't thinking parasitic wasps at all!
Cheers,
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