Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Is this a hornet?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
It has a scorpion tail!

I spotted it on my Phlox Nicki, there were flies too but I didn't realise the fly at the tip was glued on with a spider's web!

It landed on the leaf, then went under it and was eating a dead fly. I have read that wasps take insects back to the nest and eat them, regorging them to feed their young, although the adults are vegetarian. I have not found a wasp that has this type of tail.

It took no notice of me, I managed to get a few good close up shots.