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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?
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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 [s]you're[/s] 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 4x2'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).....