Hitch-hiker identification??

[Maxwell]

Oh so it is... jeez, I didn't realise they were that big

 

i got bit 3 times on the same hand the other day while doing some strimming. i had a balloon hand for a good few days!

[Maxwell]

Sod that, I'm keeping a tennis racquet in the car from now on.. I think it will make a lovely "doonk" sound as I ace it into the foliage (and run away)

 

i rekon you could mount this fella above a fire place

[Cracker]

I'm surprised. I thought they were all in my woods, waiting to eat me.

[penfold]

darren, if you have a go at that thing it'll probably pull a baseball bat on you and start giving you a good hiding

[County4x4]

I reckon that would be a Dark Giant Horsefly - Tabanus sudeticus - I've seen seen a few about this year. Heaviest two winged fly in Europe, and biggest fly in the UK!

 

They don't suck blood - they chew lumps off you and fly off with them by all accounts!!

 

Andy

[ging]

Any idea what this crazy thing hitching a lift on my windscreen is?

 

kill it with fire! thats a gert big clegg.

[Stephen Blair]

i saw one of those last year Jen, it was the size of a wood wasp. Scary biscuits indeed.

[slack ma girdle]

According to insects of western europe: Females are voracious blood suckers attacking all large mammals including man, with their blade like mouth parts ..........

SPLAT IT

However the males feed on nectar

[Frankie Lawrence]

According to insects of western europe: Females are voracious blood suckers attacking all large mammals including man, with their blade like mouth parts ..........

SPLAT IT

However the males feed on nectar

 

I always seem to atract females in all walks of life:001_rolleyes: