ID...some sort of wasp?

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I took this this morning. He/she was tiny...to give you some idea, I shot using the 50mm on 10cm of macro tube. Then cropped the image to maybe 1/3 of the size of the original.

I think it's some sort of wasp, although I thought it was a flying ant before I looked closer...Head is very much like a wasp head. So, any ideas? Probably about 3mm long, tops.


Very small wasp ID required by http://bendthelight.me.uk, on Flickr
 
It looks like some species of Gall Wasp - they seem to vary from black/orange to brown. They're the ones that make those little woody balls on oak trees. Oak Gall Wasp
 

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