Anyone know what this is? Wasp? Hornet?

[swinny]

Spotted this beast on site the other day riding this leaf till the winds died down. Thinking it was size of a 50p 

[peds]

Could it be some kind of blood bee? 

 

Sphecodes species... 

 

Edit for this handy chart

Edited June 7 by peds

[Anno]

its an  Ichneumon you can see the ovipositor on the second image, difficult to ident to species from the images.

[GarethM]

A wasp then, it didn't have any fur like a pollen carrying bee.

[nepia]

54 minutes ago, Anno said:

its an  Ichneumon you can see the ovipositor on the second image, difficult to ident to species from the images.

That's what I thought but what look initially like an ovipositor is actually a leg when you compare to other pics.  I think.

 

Personally I'd say @peds suggestion was better

[Rich Rule]

No idea what that is but I did find this in my house the other day.

 

Almost dead but a decent size.

 

I think it is just a regular Hornet but can anyone confirm?

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Looks like a European hornet to me.

Asiatics are quite different.

[peds]

30 minutes ago, nepia said:

That's what I thought but what look initially like an ovipositor is actually a leg when you compare to other pics.  I think.

 

Personally I'd say @peds suggestion was better

 

I saw no ovipositor, so I started looking beewise instead. Blurry pics unfortunately, tricky to get any real detail. 

Handsome chap anyway. 

 

 

 

[nepia]

3 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

No idea what that is but I did find this in my house the other day.

 

Almost dead but a decent size.

 

I think it is just a regular Hornet but can anyone confirm?

 

[nepia]

Defo Euro hornet