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December Winner: Markulous and Year Winner: Wild Canon

Congratulations to Markulous on winning the final competition of 2009 and Wild Canon on winning the overall competition for the year!

The top 3 members this year were:

1st - Wild Canon (80 votes)
2nd - Markulous (40 votes)
3rd - Keith (33 votes)

Congratuations to all three of you and also a big thanks to everyone who entered this year. If you'd like to know your score then please contact Jamie.

As you know, this was Jamie's last month running the competition so a huge thank you to him from everyone at the forum. He's run the competition brilliantly and I'm sure you'll agree it's been a big success.

There will be no January competition this year but hopefully we should have something sorted for February.

Thanks and happy new year!

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South Coast Ranger
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This was buzzing around the velux window in my kitchen - spotted by the kids. It settled down in the evening and I took the photo at night while sitting by the moth trap - it came out better than I expected

Anyway appears to be Ectemnius cephalotes. It feeds on flies.

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20-07-2008 06:10 PM

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I love these close up macro shots. I don't think I've ever seen one of these before, it looks like their body is quite a bit smaller than other wasps.

21-07-2008 03:17 PM

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it was a little smaller but the mandibles could certainly give a nasty nip

21-07-2008 07:55 PM

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I love this forum, some great photos including this one

24-07-2008 01:49 PM

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thanks riana

here's a different wasp (same species) trapped in the same window

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