Scariest insect I've ever seen

[miker]

was putting some new larch boarding up the other day, had one of these pestering me,scary looking thing,

[Stephen Blair]

Hi flex, those were the days!!

 

No man should know he has a bum just by mearly walking!! i remember going into the post office for Mog rd tax and all eyes were on my ass!!!

 

All i could hear was mint humbugs gets rattled off dentures and heavy breathing as I squeaked and chaffed down the line of blue rinses!!

[silky fox]

:D:D You're on form tonight Mr B

[RobRainford]

Wood wasps are awesome first one I saw landed on a guys zip on his saw pants. He thought it was going to bite his knackers off! They do sound like helicopter.

 

 

I found this moth at the yard. Couldn't believe how big it was!

 

[mcleish17]

I was in Galway, Ireland last week and me and my day were cutting some wood for our fire next to a pine forest and the wood wasp took a liking to my new hi vis yellow pfanner trousers and I did the same. Ran away waving my hands.

[peatff]

I look like I'm fighting off the invisible man when there's anything resembling wasps round me, I have a phobia of them, there's even a name for it spheksophobia. Bees don't bother me at all, we had two colonies of bumbles in the back garden this year and both ran their course and went on their way with no problem.

[StephF]

Woodwasps bore large holes in the sitka I buy, it looks as if a giant woodworm made them, and the giant maggoty bugs are disgusting that come out of the logs! I wonder how many customers never come back when they find them!!

[openspaceman]

That is absolutely true.

 

Wood wasps are amazing to watch when they bore into a bit of wood. Such a fragile looking "stinger" (I think the proper name is ovipositor?), drilling into a piece of solid wood always impresses me.

 

I can vouch for one attempting to bore into a douglas resin soaked thigh whilst driving a ford 4000 with tongs.

 

The ovipositor doesn't have a sting but a stinger is a modified ovipositor.

[predator]

try a asian hornet on your back there like a chinook on steroids and yes i ran like a nancy lol only cos there stinger works like a red hot nail being stuck in hospital jobby etc as people die each year from there stings look,em up on google they really frighten the life out of me hate,em

[Woodreeve]

Was once employed saving Woodwasps from ignorant bystanders at a county show whilst my old man was carving. The heroic 8 year old with the hornets always got more attention than the chainsaw... Sadly I'm doing the carving these days and there aren't anywhere near as many on that site :-(. The Latin name has even just popped in my head unprompted...urocerus gigas. Clearly learnt something then :-)

 

 

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