Unusual Yellow and Black wasp, and mini black spider - Kent UK (1 Viewer)

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Tim100

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• Aug 4, 2018

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Saw one on ivy a few weeks ago but zoomed off before I could take a picture. Saw one again today and got the awful picture attached. Began focusing but flew off at rapid speed.

Is it an ichneumon wasp ? It looks too broad in the body. Any ideas ?

Spider was small. But bigger than a money spider. Black with white spots.

 

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Tim100

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• Aug 4, 2018

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Thick knee beetle ?
The black beetle I don't know
And this spider type I have forgotten the name of. Not true spiders ?

 

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honeym

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• Aug 4, 2018

• #3

Thick-legged flower beetle, Oedemera nobilis, also known as the false oil beetle.

 

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Tim100

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• Aug 5, 2018

• #4

Thanks honeym. I agree with your beetle I.d.

Have added a couple more ( a bumblebee and a mid sized spider)

Bee may be a queen buff tailed ?

Small black spider above may be Lepthyphantes minutus.

 

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Tim100

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• Aug 5, 2018

• #5

Leggy spider at the top is probably just Common harvestman, and the beetle in the earth is Black Clock Beetle.

 

Andy Adcock

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• Aug 5, 2018

• #6

Bottom Spider is Nursery Web Spider I think.

 

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Tim100

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• Aug 5, 2018

• #7

Thanks Andy. After a google search, I fully agree !

 

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Tim100

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• Aug 27, 2018

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Here is a close up picture of the wasp like insect. Was on a wasp's nest on Essex

Also a similar one that was black with white spot near base of tail.

Any ideas on picture and the description only one
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