I can’t remember ever seeing a creature like this before. If it is a wasp, I’ve never seen one with these markings. It took a nap on my fern for so long I feared it was dead, but when I came out again, it had flown away.
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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Wow! He must have been looking at you! Never saw one like that either. Good you had a camera with you.
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I was at home. Ran inside.
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That is an amazing looking insect! It doesn’t look real. Thanks for sharing.
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That’s one impressive bug. How pretty, but it doesn’t match the Mexican yellows and oranges!!
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It was yellow and orange.. and black. It was irridescent so it made it look like blue wings, but they were iridescent black.
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Oh, wow!
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That is one amazing insect, and a great photo. I’ve been poking Mr. Google, and it might be some kind of tiger moth, but none of the photos I’ve seen have that brilliant shade of blue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amata_huebneri
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That insect is very colourful and pretty, Judy. Most unusual.
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Forgottenman has found a possible solution to what it is but it doesn’t look exactly like it..
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Very pretty.
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Simply amazing Judy 🙂 🙂
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We are amazed by the same things, then. I am fascinated by insects..their alien bodies and incredibly artistic raiment. This one looks like he’s dressed for a party–all those colors and patterns. Striped pants and a fancy belt. What is it in nature that loves beauty so much on every level.. even down to the molecular. How beautiful even the deadly coronavirus is. Perhaps the animals we hunt think the same of us..Those wild black and red hunting jackets!!! Why are we surprised that things hunt us when we have so cruelly depleted the earth of different species?
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Wow! Beautiful! And look at that color!
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What a color!
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Amazing
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as everyone has been saying – wow! What colours, how unusual and what a top square!
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Thanks, Becky. And thanks for giving me a place to put it.
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Honoured that my challenge was chosen to show this incredible find.
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If this was April 1st I would say you’d just painted it! Absolutely gorgeous!
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Ha.. Nope. Somewhat skilled with the paintbrush but no skill at all in wrestling insects.
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I hate bugs of all types, but the color on this guy is amazingly cool 😀
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Wonderful find! It appears to be a Scoliidae wasp of some sort, though couldn’t tell you the species.
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I’ll look it up, Eilene. Thanks so much.
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