It's a black flower wasp - native to Australia!
It's a non-aggressive native wasp, that keeps grubs and destructive insects in lawns and gardens under control. The females are big and powerful and can dig holes into the ground to lay their lavae. The males can be seen pollenating wild flowers low to the ground.
They are a beautiful insect and don't need to be erradicated as they aren't a pest or aggressive or dangerous to humans.
They are unusally shaped - a bit like a massive fly (like a march fly) mixed with a dragon fly and a butterfly. They have elongated black bodies, slightly hairy dark (mostly black) legs, and stunning bright irridescent cobalt blue wings that make them look like something from out of this world!
Traditional bee shape, large in size, black shiny body, wings are metallic blue in sunlight: Carpenter bee.
A mud dauber is a type of wasp that is black and lustrous blue. Other names for this was are dirt digger, mud wasp and dirt diver.
Great Black Wasp
Bee wings are actually transparent, though they can look silvery if light strikes them at an angle.
Mainly yellow, with black wings and tail..There is some white streaking in the wings, and the male has a black cap in summer.
Lightening bugs are black in color with spots of red on their wings. They also have a clear ball at the end of their abdomen. This is where the light comes from.
Carpenter bees are very large bees with a black body and black wings. They also have an orange stripe in the center of the body.
Tarantula Hawk - hunts tarantulas
The Black-capped Chickadee has a black cap, white belly and cheeks, and light brown underneath it's wings, and black wings
Bee wings are actually transparent, though they can look silvery if light strikes them at an angle.
The Luna Moth has green wings, red boarders around the green on the wings(sometimes black or brown to, depending on the gender), the wings are large, the feathery antennae are brown (or black or gray), its body is yellow (or brown or gray), its six legs are red(or black or gray or brown), its "tounge" color depends on the leg color.
Body is black and the wings are grey-white.
Light teal.
Mainly yellow, with black wings and tail..There is some white streaking in the wings, and the male has a black cap in summer.
The Black-capped Chickadee has a black cap, white belly and cheeks, and light brown underneath it's wings, and black wings
Lightening bugs are black in color with spots of red on their wings. They also have a clear ball at the end of their abdomen. This is where the light comes from.
winged ants look like other normal black ants but dey just have wings sooo their colour is black
Its reddish black and its wings are brown with a spice of white.
A large white sea bird with black tipped wings is a Gannet. I don't know if they are seen in then Great Lakes
It is a large sea bird that is often white with black at the end of their wings.