just setting up on the River Lugg yesterday and this fly landed on my Rod tube , can somebody tell me what type it is please..







Cheers
Spencer

It's a ICHNEUMON SUSPICIOSUS. Found from Spring to late Autumn. Feeds on nectar. It lays it eggs in caterpillars of various moths. Hibernates throughout winter.

Cheers WF, such an amaing looking fly, never seen one before.
Learn something new every day

Cheers
Spencer

That's the one and here it is: Life On An Oxfordshire Lawn: An Ichneumon wasp - Amblyteles armatorius

Chris.

They look very similar to group of wasps that have been tunneling individual holes into a sandy bank by my shed, I noticed these ones occasionally carrying/ dragging in a housefly presumably to lay eggs inside?

Jonesy

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With a name like ICHNEUMON SUSPICIOSUS I thought you were pulling our leg. Sorry.

bk ME OLD SON i THOUGHT tHEY WERE TEKIN THE **** ASWELL

It doesn't have a common name.
SUSPICIOSUS?
Perhaps the scientists couldn't think of anything for it!

the name is true

Landing on that particular rod tube shows it's a wasp with very good taste