What type of wasp is this?

Trapped in the house earlier…

Stephen, a friend of Geoff Moth.

Oh dear. They sound like bad news. Probably part of some weird cult. You could say they are…*clears throat*… In a sect.

baby robin?

Potter wasp?

A babey Robin earlier.

WTF is that! It’d be a defcon1 evacuation of the Moore residence if I found one of them.
RM.

Potter wasp?

Google seems to say no.

I am starting to think I was inches from death, and have realised some kind of flying death back into the world.

Dear, God! What have I done!

WTF is that!

It’s a fit girl in a super hero outfit. Get over it.

Wood Wasp

It’s a fit girl in a super hero outfit. Get over it.

Haha, excellent work!
RM.

Wot drac says. Big but harmless….
(the wasp)

Wood Wasp

See, I thought that, but Google seems to say no again.

Note the long stinger:

Don’t know, but embrace nature, we’re lucky to have them around.

Drac +1 it’s a wood wasp

looks like a wood wasp.
damit should have hit refresh..

Looks like one of the ichnumon family of flies…. Parasitic wasps… Loads of different ones about and the long sting is actually for laying eggs into prey species.

Just googling ‘wasps thin body’

Holy shit snacks…

Some sort of ichneumon wasp…

They’re the ones that lay eggs inside their victim, for the larvae to hatch later and eat their walking larder from inside out

Cancel that, it’s an ichneumon wasp

Cancel that, it’s an ichneumon wasp

We have a winner!

….although Daft Vader got there first, you provided pictorial evidence.

The wasp is in the post.

Jamie… They can get up to 5″ long!!!

DO NOT EMBRACE THE WASP

It’s not a wood wasp. Looks like a real one to me.
One of the black and yellow variety I believe

They can get hp to 5″ long!!!

Then we have something in common 😡

They can get hp to 5″ long!!!

😯

…although not to be confused with Spinal Tap measurements

Take no prisoners…

RM.

Tis a variety of ichneumon wasp.
Most are parasitic. The thing on the back is an ovipositor, used to plant the eggs. They don’t actually sting, though.

I really should’t have started googling…

Nooo, I live in France, we have some forests left, unspoiled, with amazing insects. Put the spray down.

Hey, stimpy’s not the winner, rkk01 is:

rkk01 – Member
Some sort of ichneumon wasp…

They’re the ones that lay eggs inside their victim, for the larvae to hatch later and eat their walking larder from inside out

Nasty!

Hey, stimpy’s not the winner, rkk01 is:

Did you even read the thread, Dez?

WELL DID YOU! HUH!?

Its not a **** wood wasp, its a wisp. Dont ever get stang by a wisp.

On a side note….

There is no good wasp.
“Hello, I’m a wasp”
“Die, mutha die”

/everyone on earth, “Yay”

Wood wasp “stinger” is not a stinger. Its for egglaying.

But you don’t know that when you are 10 years old helping your dad to chop up an old pine tree and this thing the size of a small bird drones up from the ground scaring both of you shitless!

samuri – Member
There is no good wasp.
“Hello, I’m a wasp”
“Die, mutha die”

/everyone on earth, “Yay”
Wrong. Wasps eat things that you spray with nasty chemicals to stop from eating your plants, etc.
Hornets, however, eat bees and other useful things, so can be killed with extreme predjudice.
And I’m extremely prejudiced against hornets!
Nuke from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure!