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Posted by legba on September 15, 2002 at 19:12:13:
Hola.
I was called to a friends' place the other night to capture and deal with a bug that was described in nightmare terms. Imagine my surprise to learn that she wasn't exaggerating. What I found was the beastie shown below.
Apologies for the image quality... I'm afraid I can't manage better with a low-end digital camera photographing through tupperware. Anyway, a description:
It was captured in an apartment Upstate New York, in fact in a pretty densely-populated outlying region of Rochester.
The bug's body proper is about 1.5 inches long, very finely defined, with the abdomen being about half the body length and joined to the rest of the body at a very narrow joining. The abdomen section is mostly black, with ridges in the surface that are yellow-colored. Six legs, of course, which are long and slender-- they look a bit like a daddy longleg's. long antennae from the head, too. Transparent yellowish wings, with brown-black markings on them.
The most striking feature, though, is its 'tail.' It's a black wiry extension from the rear of the abdoment, fully 3 inches long. It sort of looks like those antenna wires often used on an FM radio.
A friend of mine tells me that it could be a wood-boring wasp, the 'tail' being used to bore into wood and deposit eggs. However, I looked up several pictures of boring wasps on google, and it doesn't resemble them at all. I've checked a couple books about regional insects, but found nothing forthcoming.
Anybody recognize this beastie?
Thanks,
J.D.