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Insect ID, please?

ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
in Wildlife gardening
Can anyone identify this little creature, please? 
I found it, dead, on the bedroom carpet today. It measures 2.5cm overall.

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    ID via Google lens
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Some type of parasitic wasp is my guess
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    It does look like one of the ichneumon wasps in the above link.
  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    Ugh! Thank you! 🙂
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Fascinating little creatures … the gardeners friend … their prey includes sawfly larvae 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    ... and butterflies ... and bees. ☹️
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    circle of life etc etc
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    As @Fire says … it’s all part of the circle of life … everything has its role in the ecosystem… when we interfere and encourage the ones we like and try to get rid of the ones we don’t, it’s then that we destroy the balance and cause problems. 
    😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812
    If it takes out cabbage whites it's your friend.
  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    Yes, @Fire and @Dovefromabove ... and think I can just about still remember life cycles etc from my teaching days as I'm only recently retired! 🧐 🤣
    But still ... ugh!
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