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Lynnwood, Washington. USA. 9-21-16

Started By Shareallicu , Sep 21 2016 3:02 PM

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#1 Offline Shareallicu - Posted September 21 2016 - 3:02 PM

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I just found this bug in my room and wondered if it was an ant or not.  She has a stinger!  I didn't know ants have stingers.

 

1. Lynnwood, Wa. USA.  In my bedroom climbing a wire.

2. 9-21-16

3. Unknown.  Found in my room.
4. 6mm.  She is standing on a pencil eraser for comparison.
5. Black gaster and head.  Red abdomen.  Shiny, no hairs or very small possibly.
6. What looks to be a stinger coming out of the end of her gaster.  Also her antennal segments are different from the ants I have seen so far.  There is usually a long one from the head, but this “ant” doesn’t seem to have the one long segment, instead she has small ones from the base of the antenna all the way to the tip.

7. When she felt threatened (trying to get her on the pencil to get her out of my room) she raised and lowered her gaster/stinger section as she walked along the pencil.

8. Unknown.
 

 

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#2 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted September 21 2016 - 3:23 PM

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I'm kind of ignorant as an entomologist, but that is definitely a wasp.


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#3 Offline Enderz - Posted September 21 2016 - 3:31 PM

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I'm kind of ignorant as an entomologist, but that is definitely a wasp.

I'm pretty sure that might be a ground wasp like the "velvet ant" which isn't an ant at all! Just let it go out your door cause it will probably die in your house. 


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#4 Offline Canadian anter - Posted September 21 2016 - 6:10 PM

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I'm pretty sure I the "stingerp" is an ovipositor
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#5 Offline Salmon - Posted September 21 2016 - 6:11 PM

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It's a wingless ichneumon wasp, probably in the genus Gelis. That's not a stinger but rather an ovipositor used to lay eggs inside the bodies of other insects. (Though ant and wasp stingers evolved from that same organ.) Interestingly at least some members of the genus Gelis are not just parasitoids, but rather hyperparisitoids who lay eggs inside the pupae of other ichneumon wasps.
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#6 Offline Shareallicu - Posted September 22 2016 - 7:35 PM

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Okay, thanks everyone!!!  I have never seen this kind of bug before!  I didn't know that wasps were wingless!  


#7 Offline Enderz - Posted September 22 2016 - 7:52 PM

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Okay, thanks everyone!!!  I have never seen this kind of bug before!  I didn't know that wasps were wingless!  

Some wasps


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