The thing with long horn beetles is that they spend the first few years of their lives as a larva deep inside the wood of a tree.
I was doing some work in my garden that involved the use of (a lot of) wood, and digging a hole of about 2 feet deep. In the bottom of that hole I saw something crawling around in the sand. At first I thought it was a wasp that had crashed right into the pit.
Turned out I was halfway right. A wasp beetle had crawled out of the wood and ended up fighting the sand grains. It's a wasp mimicking beetle. Not only its color's match that of a wasp, it also has the longer hind legs, flies similar to a wasp (zig zag) and moves likewise with constant movement and waving of the antennas. The only thing it doesn't have is a stinger.. It's a harmless beetle.
Stacked image (about 10 images). Canon 40d, 430 EX, Sigma 150, 1/125 f8
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