Is it the plant or some bug that I can’t see…? Doesn’t look dissimilar to a young ganja plant…
Lister - close enough! Although actually they paralyse the spider and lay their eggs in it then their larvae feed off the poor paralysed spider.
Spider wasps general name but the bigger ones are often called Tarantula Hawks which is a pretty cool name!
The plant in the centre.
Does it have a flower??
Do you mean the yellow rattle or the thing growing up through it?
I was thinking yellow rattle initially but then changed my mind…
Yellow rattle. Pleased to see it coming up in my meadow after sowing seed last year.
I take it ‘evil looking bastard’ isn’t correct??
Nah. That's this.
Which landed on me at the weekend - again about 4cm long and flying freaky deaky...
UK?
Mine - Yes - River Teith, Callander, Scotland
That body shape is a weevil of some sort I would guess. No idea what giants you’ve got up in Scotland though!
I think Matt's is a longhorn beetle of some kind. Ace looking thing 🙂
I think Matt’s is a longhorn beetle of some kind.
We had to use image search - and you are correct. A Rhagium of some kind, one of the long tailed beetle family.
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
Too late...
On the subject of badass insects here is another – a wasp so huge it made a massive spider look small! Taken in Kruger National Park if anyone fancies another ID test…! The spider is a baboon spider. A little easier to identify as the name is very much ‘does what it says on the tin’
I can't remember the name, but thats one of those wasps that are even more diabolical than average, they paralyse the spider , bury it, lay eggs inside it and the larve eat it from the inside out whilst its still alive but paralysed.
they paralyse the spider , bury it, lay eggs inside it and the larve eat it from the inside out whilst its still alive but paralysed
To paraphrase Stephen Fry, what kind of a God would create something so evil that it does that?
Best way to keep the food fresh - don’t actually kill it before eating it.
Here’s an easier one - also UK but was an impressive beast, about 7cm long.
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I can’t remember the name, but thats one of those wasps that are even more diabolical than average, they paralyse the spider , bury it, lay eggs inside it and the larve eat it from the inside out whilst its still alive but paralysed.
Theres a species of Rhagium found in Stirlingshire that does the same thing - but to mountain bikers.
(first dibs on your bikes)
😆
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
22 years ago today, we lost DNA.
