Whats this insect

[Gill]

Bug bombed the house this morning. Dog has fleas for the 1st time.
And this was one of the casualties, any ideas on what it is. Never seen one like it before.

 

[SteveMid]

It looks like a type of solitary wasp to me, but looks paler in colour to the ones I see. The ones I see carry insects to feed their larvae in burrows in sandy/soily embankments but are black. They are the same shape as this though.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

It looks like a type of solitary wasp to me

It is, it is part of the <"Parasitica"> (Ichneumons etc). You get them very commonly in moth traps (they are nocturnal, which is why they have the big eyes) and attracted to light (which is why it ended up in your house). They are parasitoids of moths.

It is an <"Ophionoid">, but they are difficult to ID to species, the genus will be either Ophion or Netelia.
<"https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47993-Ophion">.

cheers Darrel

 

[Gill]

Hi all,

It is, it is part of the <"Parasitica"> (Ichneumons etc). You get them very commonly in moth traps (they are nocturnal, which is why they have the big eyes) and attracted to light (which is why it ended up in your house). They are parasitoids of moths.

It is an <"Ophionoid">, but they are difficult to ID to species, the genus will be either Ophion or Netelia.
<"https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47993-Ophion">.

cheers Darrel

Thats very cool - Thanks.
It reminded me of the wasps from Antz

 

[Miniandy]

We get quiet a few of these, I had assumed they came from a delivery of firewood logs that we kept from the end of the winter to the next - we had a lot of logs and a lot of bugs.

@dw1305 thanks for the heads up!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I had assumed they came from a delivery of firewood logs that we kept from the end of the winter to the next - we had a lot of logs and a lot of bugs.

You get lots of moths and beetles associated with dead wood (particularly if it has the bark on). You also can get Sawflies etc.

cheers Darrel