Brian ÓI saw this fellow when inspecting the garden this morning. At first I thought it was a wasp, but then on closer inspection it looked like a mantis. It turns out it's a "wasp mantidfly" which is in fact neither a wasp, nor a mantis. I don't think I've ever seen one before.
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