What the hell is it? Body is about 8mm across and 25-30mm length, wing span of 3-4cms. The sting must have been 15-20mm!
In my garden earlier and this started flying around! I ran like a girl, put the rabbit back in her hutch and went inside. It then got stuck under
some plastic next to the window allowing me to get a few photo's before it flew off.
What the hell is it? Body is about 8mm across and 25-30mm length, wing span of 3-4cms. The sting must have been 15-20mm!
Looks like a sand wasp to me.
a wasp 
ya big girl, it is not a string!!!
Giant wood wasp
Scientific name: Uroceras gigas.
Body length: 30mm.
Flight period: May - August.
The large size and black and yellow colouration mean that this 'wasp' causes more than a few scares, but it is not a wasp at all, it is a
sawfly and completely harmless. The large 'sting' is in fact the ovipositor, which is used to lay eggs (and gives it the alternative name of
horntail). Most often seen in coniferous woodland.
Common in Staffordshire.
Aaaah! So that's what they are - seen quite a few around recently
we used to have them every summer trying to lay eggs in our wooden fences.. they look very scary, but fly slowly like drunk hornets..
I think they have migrated here from europe
i had a hornet on my car last year i think. huge it was
thats my thumb next to it. i'm hardcore i am
is this your specialist subject?
its one of the most detailed answers ive seen on here
where do i go to find out this kind of information??
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Originally posted by 02GF74
ya big girl, it is not a string!!!
Giant wood wasp
Scientific name: Uroceras gigas.
Body length: 30mm.
Flight period: May - August.
The large size and black and yellow colouration mean that this 'wasp' causes more than a few scares, but it is not a wasp at all, it is a sawfly and completely harmless. The large 'sting' is in fact the ovipositor, which is used to lay eggs (and gives it the alternative name of horntail). Most often seen in coniferous woodland.
Common in Staffordshire.
I saw a hornet in my back garden it must have been nearly two inches long, it was huge, I assume it was the queen
Cheers
David
Well, that makes it official. You can get any question answered on here. Ask.com eat your arse out!
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Originally posted by eccsmk
is this your specialist subject?
its one of the most detailed answers ive seen on here
where do i go to find out this kind of information??
quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
ya big girl, it is not a string!!!
Giant wood wasp
Scientific name: Uroceras gigas.
Body length: 30mm.
Flight period: May - August.
The large size and black and yellow colouration mean that this 'wasp' causes more than a few scares, but it is not a wasp at all, it is a sawfly and completely harmless. The large 'sting' is in fact the ovipositor, which is used to lay eggs (and gives it the alternative name of horntail). Most often seen in coniferous woodland.
Common in Staffordshire.
funny that, i have just exterminated a wasp coloney that had made its self a home in a birdbox in the garden! Thought there were a lot about..
hmm, don't think i've seen any wasps this year. just loads of those hovering flies that hover around your face
Its not the big ones you need to watch out for - on tuesday, I was sat in my garden, felt a bit of an itch near my ankle, and there was this tiny
black 'fly' which I squished instantly - the 'squish' was bright red, and I thought - yeah, right - my blood! Thought no more
about it until thursday when it got uncomfortable - big red spot, hard lump underneath which got bigger and more sore through thursday and friday -
red area the size of a saucer around it - only started to go down this morning.
Little sod.
We have hornets galore down here - massive things. Luckily they are not aggressive at all and easy to trap with a glass and piece of card and eject
from the house. They prey on wasps too, so they keep those buggers down.
Nick
I found one of those mahoosive wood wasp things in a bag of compost I bought. I was casually scooping the compost out of the bag by hand and when I
came across it I poo myself and ran like a little girl 
Why is it still alive?
Looks a beast. We have more bees round here than anything else. Well actually no. Weare over run with green/black fly.
In the last two houses ive had now, ive experienced wasps nesting in the wall cavity. They enter through drill holes from old fixings on the outside
of the wall, and then make their nest.
Ive seen a few of those wood wasps around in the past, but thankfully not here. It would give the kids (and missus) nightmares! The spiders are big
enough!! We have a nest of Hertfordshire Hairies somewhere near the garage, and the ones that run across the living room floor are almost big enough
to be able to run away with the TV!
I didn't want to kill it in case his mates saw and tried to kill me!
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Originally posted by Mark G
In my garden earlier and this started flying around! I ran like a girl, put the rabbit back in her hutch and went inside. It then got stuck under some plastic next to the window allowing me to get a few photo's before it flew off.
What the hell is it? Body is about 8mm across and 25-30mm length, wing span of 3-4cms. The sting must have been 15-20mm!
Give them buggers the trainer of doom!
For some reason all those things are attracted to my high vis vest, ever slapped a wasp? Doesn't seem so interested after a back-hander 