We've had this buzzing around in the house. Not sure what it is. Four wings of reddish brown colour, no real waist to the body, about 35mm long. I say buzzing as it's struggling to fly, might be a queen full of eggs.
As you were - my wife's managed to find out what it is. A giant wood wasp or giant horntail.
Not sure what it's doing round here as there's no pine trees nearby.
Yorkshire Death Wasp
I think it's a wood wasp of some variety.
I think they look quite nasty, but are actually harmless (don't quote me on this!).
Did you kill it humanely?
He didn't kill it.
He gave it a lecture on recycling.
He didn’t kill it.
He gave it a lecture on recycling.
I think killing it would have been the humane option TBH.
Which colour bin did you stick it in? Hopefully the blue one, that has lots of lovely cardboard.
Completely harmless, their larvae feed on dead wood.
There have been reports of large numbers around London today...
They don't need pine trees they will use pine timber quite happily.
Hogweed bonking beetle
Yep wood wasp. Lovely chaps, harmless but terrifying.
no real waist to the body
WTF, a wasp with no waist???
Ffs, this obesity crisis is worst than I thought.
Mind you "there’s no pine trees nearby", that might explain it ... probably been binging on empty carbs.
If the young eat pine, are they considered a pest? Seen a few recently, quite a beastly looking thing!
