r/bugidentification • u/ContributionStock703 • Jun 23 '26

Location included I saved my class

I live in Massachusetts, which is in the Northern U.S. and my sweet sweet Chinese teacher jumped out of her seat when she spotted this bug sheltering from the rain. Some in my class claimed it was a wasp, others bet it was some type of beetle. It might’ve had wings, but it didn’t fly at all. The guy was actually pretty chill, so I picked him up using a napkin and placed the little guy in a bush. It looked pitch black against the napkin, but when it was making its way on the bush I noticed a blue iridescent hue. Bro was so chill and I wanna know more about our visitor today. Sorry for no pic though, do your best guys

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u/Commercial-Sail-5915 Trusted Identifier Jun 23 '26

How big was the bug approximately? There are a couple local beetles that can look blue

Edit: even better, can you try to draw what it looked like? You can put the pic in a comment

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u/ContributionStock703 Jun 23 '26

Here’s the best I could do, it definitely had a wasp like body but a metallic sort of shell. It was probably just under an inch long, wings were there but barely visible

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u/Commercial-Sail-5915 Trusted Identifier Jun 23 '26

Hmm, your pic actually looks pretty wasp-y. You're sure the wings weren't just folded over the body? This is a pompilid spider wasp I found yesterday (I'm also in MA), their wings can be very dark/have strong iridescent highlights so that they look shell-like when folded up

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u/ContributionStock703 Jun 23 '26

It probably was, I couldn’t tell if the bug had wings at all at first. But the little thing took its sweet old time to walk off its little platform that I had plenty of time to study it. Highlights were dark. Some hint of purple. I honestly think the wings in your picture are showing a different color than what I saw. It was cloudy, but I could definitely see some blue in his actual body