Thread: Bug ID please
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Old 07-02-2011, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by [1ponders] View Post
It could be a male blue ant (Diamma Bicolor) but I've never seen one and i can't find an image of one
Paul, this is a Blue Ant wasp.

They are lovely, and they really look like they are made of a shiny blue metal!
We have a few each year show up.
They have also been nick-named 'lone-ant' at times because you will only ever see them alone. Never with another of its kind.
http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/ind...detail&id=2705
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