Very big wasp?

[Daniël Bos]

Some quite big wasps keep finding their way into the light in my living room and buzzing a baritone buzz when they're there.

There's two or three there and one or two that fly on and off.

 

If it was a queen I'd not expect more than one?

 

It doesn't look like hornets as there's none of the reddish colour.

 

But they're far bigger than normal wasps?

 

Some pics of two I just got out of there on graph paper (2-10-20 mm) beside a normal wasp.

[Gillsgardening]

It is a Queen! Do you have logs in your living room? I had the same problem last year, Queens are now going into hibernation and love logs, I brought loads in last year, now I check each log before I bring them in.

[Daniël Bos]

I thought it was a queen, but we've got at least four or five of them together?

 

I thought queens would seek solitude.

[mendiplogs]

Some quite big wasps keep finding their way into the light in my living room and buzzing a baritone buzz when they're there.

There's two or three there and one or two that fly on and off.

 

If it was a queen I'd not expect more than one?

 

It doesn't look like hornets as there's none of the reddish colour.

 

But they're far bigger than normal wasps?

 

Some pics of two I just got out of there on graph paper (2-10-20 mm) beside a normal wasp.

 

Hi rover we had one very large wasp in the last day or so thanks Jon

[Paul Cleaver]

yeh its aQueen wasp - saw a hornet the other day - flying around like it owned the place

[Jon3012]

You have a wasp nest very close to the house or in a part of your house and the nest is coming to an end. Pretty common this time of year.

[Chippy]

Throw all my logs on the floor outside now before bringing them inside, got stung by a queen wasp hibernating in logs last xmas day.

[monkeybusiness]

We've had loads of them in the house over the last couple of weeks as there is a nest in the roof which I hadn't bothered to do anything with as it wasn't causing me any nuisance. Apparently wasp nests produce loads of queens at this time of year, and they all leave the nest and look for somewhere to hibernate until next year, when the survivors start their own nests. I've just been up the ladders with the waspy night night dust as we have really been inundated!