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Weird bug

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  • 23-07-2013 11:15pm
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    DrWu
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭


    Just found a very strange bug in my living room. It looks like a large bee/wasp but with a much narrower and longer head (much like a horsefly). It has black and orange bands on its back. Never seen this before! Any ideas?


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    #2
    DrWu
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭DrWu


    Just to add to that, it is a flying insect with wings, again much like a bee/wasp. Cheers.


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    aidoh
    Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    Is it a burying beetle?
    44857177.Necrophorusvespilloides.jpg


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    aidoh
    Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    If so, be sure to record it on biodiversity.ie - beetles are a very underrecorded group in Ireland, except for ground beetles.


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    DrWu
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭DrWu


    Hi Aidoh.

    Looks like the very thing. Do they fly?


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    aidoh
    Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    They do indeed. They look like bees when they do.
    Where abouts are you in Ireland, if you don't mind me asking?


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