Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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:ty: :ty: X#X


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Grasshopper? 6cm, Nelspruit summer

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Maybe Acrida acuminata - but you need to see the wings - make him fly :-0


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He is long gone! lol

Is it a katydid? ..0..


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A slantface grasshopper :-0


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Large ant, 1.5 cm, Nelspruit hillside summer.

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She is a mutillid wasp (aka velvet ant, but it is not an ant). They are highspeed runner mothers searching for nests for ovipositing.
They have a painful sting.

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Insects :O^ I would have sworn that it was an ant lol


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