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Hello,
I am very curious to know what this beautiful insect is called. I have been searching your site and the closest thing that resembled "my" insect was a photo of a broad winged damselfly. These two insects look very similar but, upon closer inspection, also very different. I live in Prince Edward Island, Canada. This insect was very content to sit on my hand and groom himself for quite sometime and did not mind being handled at all! If you get a chance, please help me out in identifying this shiny black bug. Thank you,
Candace Best
Hi Candace,
We do believe this is the most beautiful image of an American Pelecinid we have ever received. This is a non-stinging relative of wasps that uses its long flexible abdomen to lay eggs underground where the larval food source, beetle grubs, live. By the way, your insect is a female.
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