ID this winged creature please.

[sapper]

I thought it was a flying ant, but someone on FB reckons it is a wasp.

[Joe_T]

I think it might a "Sweat Bee".
I posted a similar looking insect on another forum that I also thought was a tiny flying Ant and was told it was a "Sweat Bee". I had never heard of a Sweat Bee but when I looked it up I found pictures of Sweat Bees that looked exactly the same.

[sapper]

Thanks for this Joe. Not sure it is correct though, there are no hairs on the legs of my creature. But open to correction.

[Joe_T]

Yes. I didn't notice that. Also as I look closer it appears that the antenna on the insect in your picture seem to be straight and the ones on the image I posted appear to be bent forward. Not sure if that is always the way they are.

[huwnothugh]

As far as I can tell from the photograph, it could be the wonderfully named Mournful Wasp Pemphredon lugubris, or a close species. By coincidence, Wiki notes that the Pemphredon family have "some similarity with ants", and NatureSpot adds that they feed mainly on aphids.

[Olybirder]

Google Lens on my phone tells me that it is one of the subfamily Pemphredoninae, also known as Aphid Wasps. As it appears to be advancing towards some aphids this could be true.

Ron

[Harold Gough]

I think so too.

https://bwars.com/wasp/crabronidae/pemphredoninae/passaloecus-insignis

Harold