The girls and I found this bug in Grammy's backyard here in Farmington, NM. It was about 2 inches long. I ran inside to grab my camera, but it was gone before I got back outside, so these are from an image search . It moves VERY fast, like a dragonfly. It looks like a flying ant, but indeed it is another wasp!!! It's scientific name is "Chlorion aerarium" AKA Steel Blue Cricket Hunter. I know because the girls wanted to look it up on the computer and after a half hour of searching we finally found it!! You'd think that "Giant metallic blue bug" would get a lot of search hits. Not so, the search results were all beetles. So there's our science for the day!
Hunter in action!!!
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