Question:
What is this bug?
2008-07-30 14:10:33 UTC
Looks quite like a wasp. Has a long "waist" with a black rear end. It's legs are yellow. They're all over the place in Wisconsin and seem to buzz around flowers and plants. It looks a little bit like this thread-wasted wasp, but it's rear is bigger for one thing.
http://www.extension.umn.edu/projects/yardandgarden/YGLNews/images2/Aug107/thread-waistd_wasp.jpg

There's no yellow and black striping.
Five answers:
tåkë cárê õf mÿ cât
2008-07-30 14:29:35 UTC
Could be the black and yellow mud dauber!



http://www.whatsthatbug.com/images/mud_dauber_flying.jpg

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/images/mud_dauber_2.jpg



http://crawford.tardigrade.net/bugs/BugofMonth22.html
Caitlin W
2008-07-30 23:34:01 UTC
no its a mud dauber.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_en___US259&q=mud%20dauber&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#



description-Mud daubers are long, slender wasps, the latter two species above with thread-like waists. The name of this wasp group comes from the nests that are made by the females, which consist of mud molded into place by the wasp's mandibles. There are three common species of mud daubers, each with distinctive coloring: the organ-pipe mud dauber (solid black coloring), the black and yellow mud dauber, and a stunning metallic-blue mud dauber with blue wings.



The organ-pipe mud dauber, as the name implies, builds nests in the shape of a cylindrical tube resembling an organ pipe or pan flute.



The black and yellow mud dauber's nest is composed of a series of cylindrical cells that are plastered over to form a smooth nest about the size of a lemon.



The metallic-blue mud dauber foregoes building a nest altogether and simply uses the abandoned nests of the other two species and preys primarily on black widow spiders.



Mud daubers are rarely aggressive.



Mud daubers pose a special risk to aircraft operation, as they are prone to nest in the small openings and tubes that comprise aircraft pitot-static systems. Their presence in these systems can disable or impair the function of the airspeed indicator, the altimeter, and/or the vertical speed indicator. It is thought that mud dauber wasps were ultimately responsible for the crash of Birgenair Flight 301.[citation needed]
2008-07-30 21:16:43 UTC
*screams*





*cries*



It's the spawn of satan.



Hmm... In all seriousness, it could be a part of the wasp family? It looks pretty aggressive! Im pretty sure that not all wasps are yellow jackets - but don't quote me on that!
gcnp58
2008-07-30 23:51:40 UTC
I believe what you are seeing is some species of a wasp mimic known as a "thick-headed fly"



http://www.lloydspitalnikphotos.com/d/2479-2/thick-headed_fly_MG_9980-01.jpg
2008-07-30 21:50:51 UTC
it is a japanese hornet look it up they are all over north america


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