Large wasp-like insect in garden.

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I saw a number of very large insect on the bark of a larch tree yesterday. These guys were about 60mm long and very skinny. they were couleres like a wasp, i.e. the abdomen was yellow and black striped, and they had very long legs. It also had a long needle like thing at the end of it's abdomen. I looket up hornets on the web and these appeaar to be the saame build as wasps. My friends were proportionatly much longer with much longer legs and this very long tail like thing. I did find a similar beast on the web, a horntail, but I dont think that it was one of those, but it was very similar.

Any idea what it might bee )).
 
Re: Large wasp-like inset in garden.

Very large wasps?

Daddy-long legs on holiday from Kilkenny or Young Munsters?
 
There are hundreds of varieties of bees and wasps. It would be impossible to identify them without a photograph or a body.

Catch one and send it to Michael Viney of the Irish Times. When the Natural History Museum was open, one could bring it to them for identification. They have some Irish insects on display in Collins Barracks.
 
Yup, I think a visit to the Nat hist Museum is on the cards. I believe it is to reopen before the end of the year.
 
Nice one!

I was going to post something along the above lines but I couldn't remember the name of the things. They are fairly common.

Do hover flies come in a large variety? If so, another possibility - they look quite like wasps but have very distinctive darting movements.

But really, the description from the OP sounds just like the ichneumon though.
 
Pretty scarey looking things!!
I saw one once and ran for the hills.. Later thinking I had discovered a new species,
I was intrigued so did some research only to find it's fairly common.
 
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