CLOSED: Weird low-flying long short-winged critter

Jerusalem, Israel

Hi Everyone, would appreciate any assistance in understanding what I'm looking at.
Have got this a few times a week in my home - every time I see only one, it flies pretty low, and most of the time just seems to make a lot of noise, and stay on the floor.
I end up finding (presumably that same one) dead in the next day or two, and then appears one more after a day or two more.
I'm not sure if they are coming from outside, or somewhere from within the house.

I'm sorry the pictures aren't of great quality - it's like a long worm with a pair of short wings attached to it. it flexes its body like a worm. Unclear but it seems to have some short legs. Can't do much when it's upside down except flap its wings vigorously and flex its body until its in the upright position, then tries to fly around a bit, hits a few things like furniture and the wall, and then goes back to flapping...
Am I seeing some specific stage of development for this creature. Are they coming into my house to die and that's it?

I tried to at least classify it, but nothing on the bug sites I looked at showed anything similar.
Please note this is the middle east here, so I'm not sure its common in the US.

Thanks in advance!

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Minot, ND

Can you submit a clearer image that is more in focus as well as something to show the scale?

Jerusalem, Israel

As requested, here is presumably the one from last night, dead as usual in the morning:

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Houston Heights, TX(Zone 9a)

It looks like a wasp to me. Im not an expert however.

Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b)

Quote from steadycam3 :
It looks like a wasp to me. Im not an expert however.

me too, and me neither.
It is an adult, it is in the wasp etc (Hymenoptera ) family, I'm guessing it is already dying and that's why they are acting odd, including ending up in your house. Flapdoodle will surely enlighten us all.

Minot, ND

I'm still thinking about this one - I know that I've seen an identical specimen before, but can't remember where. Am on vacation right now, and don't have the time for extensive searching...

Jerusalem, Israel

Cool, thanks everyone. With your help I opened some local guides, and went looking at the wasps...
Note that when it's alive, it's much longer than it seems when it's dead (you can see it in some of the pictures above).
Now I'm pretty sure what I'm seeing is a "dorylus fulvus" male.

It's the beginning of the summer, so it's said that they have a mating period right about now where the male (the ones with the wings) goes dancing around and gets attracted to places with light - seems like a good match for the symptoms.
Why they're dying at my doorstep I'm not really sure, but hey - unrealized love can be tough :)

If any of the experts can verify that the identification seems right, I'll mark this one solved. Thanks again!

Minot, ND

Indeed that is it; it is a male, and at least two subspecies of Dorylus fulvus have been reported from Israel.

Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a)

I was looking at some info RE bees and their decline. I ran across this info. Perhaps the Dorylus fulva are part of a control program to save the pollinating bees and are succumbing to pesticides ??

http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=2012%2FOV%2FOV201204402004402.xml%3BBE19930039075

Minot, ND

The article cited would appear to include Dorylus ants among the pests of honey bees...

Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a)

Yes, that was my understanding...and wonder if efforts to eradicate Dorylus ants account for the number of them that are moving/dying in more populated areas....just a supposition.

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