I’m not good with wasps – a bad childhood experience left me with something verging on a phobia – and I got scared half to death to feel this crawl up my leg today.

I managed to resist the urge to squash it (I didn’t resist the urge to shriek like a school girl), and shook it off.

Having got my heart rate under control I managed a photo but what is it?

Wood wasp I think.

I have no idea but someone needs to come along with a Flamethrower GIF.

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It’s a Woodwasp . Scared the shit out of me first time I saw one cos they’re massive but apparently harmless .

I concur with the above, a harmless wood wasp, unless you’re wood.

I concur with the above, a harmless wood wasp, unless you’re you’ve got wood.

Luckily that is not an Asian giant hornet, unless you are in Asia.

Ta for the replies, though knowing is harmless does nothing to help my pride!

Yesterday I observed a solitary bee collecting tiny bits of wood off the floor (big 4×2’s to a bee) and stacking them into a pile somewhere else.
It was fascinating though he could have got more done if he’d have asked a mate for a lift I think.
Wood bee?

If it’s of any consolation I also would have also shrieked like a girl had it of landed on me.

Love watching bees* go to work but wasps no, no, no.

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*especially boo-bees fnar, fnar.

Oooft! Lucky escape there OP.

That’s the Leg-stinging Death Hornet

Ta for the replies, though knowing is harmless does nothing to help my pride!

You can’t help yourself – even though I like them they’re so brightly, crisply black and yellow it just seems to set of some primitive internal alarm bell. They’re quite clattery in flight too.

I have one around my workshop – he has a habit of landing on my shoulder – on the very edge of my peripheral vision.

You should still get tested for Cat Aids (both types)…..