Any ideas on ID

[alliec]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2495833849_6d0178cae9_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2495834309_32dff469d4_o.jpg

[LordV]

Wonderful shots and interesting find :) - my guess would be a sawfly
Brian V.

[DaveBinks]

Good shots - I've looked the insect up on a number of sites and agree with Brian that it looks like a variety of sawfly (Wikepedia has almost exactly the same "model" showing)

[dpastern]

I'd say some sort of Scorpion fly myself. Interesting find.

Dave

[johnkermit1]

awesome...ive never seen one~
great shots Alistair!

[GaryT]

Great shots. Nice colors.

[eccles]

I have no idea either, but I want one! Cracking shots.

[pakololo]

Not sure on the ID but those are great images! Every time i snoop around here i wanna get into macro lol

Keep up the good work!

:::back to reality:::

[alliec]

Thanks everyone for the comments everyine and the ID. I thought it was a wasp at first, never seen anything like it before but i wasnt shooting macro till aughust of last year so missed alot of these bugs.

[racketman]

Nice find. Sawfly seems right, maybe a species of the Tenthredo genus? Bioimages have a few to look at.

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T41976.HTM

Tenthredo celtica Benson ?

[spidermanrbryce2006]

what a neat bug, great shots!