…hosta!
As a couple of readers already suggested, I was way off in identifying it as an assassin bug.
I wrote to What’s that Bug? about it, and lookee here!
Not only did they write back right away, identifying “this beautiful creature” as a parasitoid Braconid Wasp, they feature my photographs of it today on the blog’s front page.
In case you don’t click over to the site, here’s what they say:
This beautiful creature is a parasitoid Braconid Wasp, and we believe it is Atanycoius longicauda based on this BugGuide image. BugGuide states of the genus: “Parasites of woodboring beetle larvae, especially metallic wood-boring beetles (Buprestidae) and longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).”
July 13th, 2017 at 1:00PM
The internet is a wonderful thing.
July 13th, 2017 at 1:22PM
My thought exactly.
July 14th, 2017 at 3:02PM
I was right it was a wasp!! Congratulations on your photos being used.
July 14th, 2017 at 5:55PM
Yup. You were right.