It has 6 legs, 1 pair of wings and a tail and it was flying around in my kitchen. What is this insect?

Its a wasp of some type, although it looks almost deformed. If its tail looked sort of like this, then its a scorpionflyl: http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Eu...en/photo63.htm You didn't get any more pics did you? Its abdomen and wings just look kinda weird.

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ewwwww! that pic and the one with the link freak me out. although once I saw a yellow and black bug in my pool and when I fished it out with the net it moved its tail end like a scorpion stinging. ick... scared me alot lol. how big are those things? the one I saw was kind of tiny.

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It is definitely nothing like the bug from the link. I took more pictures I'll have to find time to post them tomorrow. It looks more like an overgrown mosquito/spider with two legs missing and wings. I know it is not deformed or missing legs because I caught several of these flies and they all look the same.

lol, I think its just the position its in, makes it look extra weird. Those eyes and antennae tell me its a wasp though, just don't know what kind yet. Could be an ant I suppose, but either way, those are in the same Order as wasps anyway.

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i to have seen this type of bug and never knew what it was I hope you find out because I have a few around here
i live in tampa florida where are you at?

It looks like some kind of creepy mutant mosquito.

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It might be Palmodes sp, but I'll wait till you post the other pics to be sure. Palmodes dimidiatus is the florida hunting wasp, though yours lacks a reddish abdomen necessary to be this species.

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I live in South Florida.

Here is another picture. It is not much better than the first but it might help.