Black flying insect with tapping tail - Evania appendigaster

It's an ensign wasp, supposed

It's an ensign wasp, supposedly does not bite humans, and controls cockroach populations. So, it's a "good" bug.

I get these in my house in North Florida. I found this page with info on them:

https://agrilife.org/urban-ipm/2017/08/11/ensign-wasps-theyre-the-good-guys-actually-girls/

… buginfo, 10 August, 2022 - 2:51pm

I live in Cyprus and we get a

I live in Cyprus and we get a lot of them. Also have cockroaches so it makes sense if the wasps are parasitoids on co kroaches eggs. Never been bitten by them...

… Kalitria, 15 August, 2022 - 6:20pm

Found one. Panic a lot.

Never saw one, so when it appears, me and my sibling, panic.
Well it bite my sibling's head and my leg, which, I torture it to amuse myself. Poor thing, she, or he died. I thought it was harmful until i found this, i never heard it came from Vietnam though.

And i found it late.

… OhWow, 6 July, 2022 - 2:58am

Moved

Moved from Ensign Wasps.

… Jonathan Hoskins, 15 April, 2021 - 6:20am

Thier eyes is color blue and

I observed that Thier eyes is color blue and green only
I'm not sure if that color can reveal thier gender

… Dhaebielyn, 29 March, 2020 - 5:54am

I know what that is...

It's an "Ensign wasp"

YW

… prettycoolPJ, 8 October, 2019 - 6:53am

Black Insect With Wings

Yeah, so I live in the UAE and I have the exact same insect living in my toilet. But I just want to know, is it harmful to humans?

… Bryan Gabriel Biaco, 12 March, 2017 - 7:17am

flying mosquito/cricket

I don't know the name of this insect, but it's bite is painful. it has flea or cricket type long stretched/springy-like legs. It flies like a mosquito and its black. It's shell is hard. It flies quick.

I've only noticed it in the past 2-3 years because it bit me. Every once in a while one will slip into your house probably to get out of the heat. So don't leave your door open long when carrying in packages from your car or you will run into one. What is it?

… Adowa21, 24 August, 2019 - 3:40pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Ben Coulter, 19 August, 2011 - 10:06am

Black insect with long legs

I have lived in Texas all my life and I have never seen this insect until the past 5-8 years. I wonder where it came from? They sting or bite too.

… lonestargirl, 21 September, 2012 - 2:36pm

May not be this exact species but...

...something along the lines of:
Cockroach Egg Parasitoid Wasp (Evania appendigaster)

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… Ron M., 18 August, 2011 - 11:10pm

Also here in the Philippines

Also here in the Philippines . We have that kind of insects.. and you got the blue eyes
.. I often seen that.. and when I compared it their just have two different eye color.. the other one is green

… Dhaebielyn, 29 March, 2020 - 6:06am

oh wow, VERY similar! I wish

oh wow, VERY similar! I wish I had taken a better shot of the tail for comparison. Thanks mate :)

edit: upon inspecting another (blurrier) photo I took from a better angle, the tails do match exactly. Thank you so much! Now I don't have to fear these anymore.

… elisahet, 19 August, 2011 - 1:32am