I saw this last night (and killed it!)
I saw this last night (and killed it!)
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jollygreen

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21,480 posts

232 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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My dog found it clinging onto the outside wall of our house - it's about 2" long with a fearsome looking stinger. Bright blue and yellow.

Anyone know what it is? Sorry for the rubbish photos - my mobile.




captainzep

13,306 posts

222 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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FAIL

To be a great post, you'd have allowed (encouraged it even) to sting you. Then, send pics of your stung area and pics of the beastie.

Only a semi-man rating here regrettably.

s4avant

196 posts

226 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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It looks like a Wood Wasp.
They look ferocious but are quite harmless!

Logie

835 posts

246 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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Looks like one of those Japanese hornets, few slight differences though!

jollygreen

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21,480 posts

232 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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s4avant said:
It looks like a Wood Wasp.
They look ferocious but are quite harmless!
That's what one of my mates at work said but the only pictures of wood wasps that I've seen show them being all black...?

jmorgan

36,010 posts

314 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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One of these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumon_wasp

Quite useful and you have killed it..... MURDERER!!!!!

Digga

48,425 posts

313 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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There was something I saw in the papers a few weeks ago about a large (totally harmless) fly which is becmming more common in the UK. Except now in Aberdeen.

If it were a hornet, and it doesn't look like one, don't kill 'em. Ever so often we get them falling down our chimney into the wood burner and just put them in a box and release them outside. Contrary to popular belief, hornets are no more or less dangerous than bees or wasps and are generally less aggressive.

Oakey

27,984 posts

246 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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horntail:



First result on Google, searching for 'yellow and black wasp large stinger' hehe

captainzep

13,306 posts

222 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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Good stuff Oakey. You are Bill Odie AICMFP etc.

Is that, its... wanger hanging down from its abdomen?

I'm just thinking what I'd look like if I was clinging to a tree trunk naked.

Silent1

19,762 posts

265 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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captainzep said:
Good stuff Oakey. You are Bill Odie AICMFP etc.

Is that, its... wanger hanging down from its abdomen?

I'm just thinking what I'd look like if I was clinging to a tree trunk naked.
A sexual pervert
HTH

ratbane

1,395 posts

246 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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Digga said:
There was something I saw in the papers a few weeks ago about a large (totally harmless) fly which is becmming more common in the UK. Except now in Aberdeen.

If it were a hornet, and it doesn't look like one, don't kill 'em. Ever so often we get them falling down our chimney into the wood burner and just put them in a box and release them outside. Contrary to popular belief, hornets are no more or less dangerous than bees or wasps and are generally less aggressive.
Tell that to the hornets who hospitalised me. 19 stings off the little critters in 1985. I've been stung by a stack of wasps, and bees, and the hornets were far more aggressive, and the venom more potent. They wouldn't give up the fight even when I jumped in a river.

captainzep

13,306 posts

222 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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Silent1 said:
captainzep said:
Good stuff Oakey. You are Bill Odie AICMFP etc.

Is that, its... wanger hanging down from its abdomen?

I'm just thinking what I'd look like if I was clinging to a tree trunk naked.
A sexual pervert
HTH
Not, necessarily. There are a myriad of possible albeit unlikely reasons why I could find myself in that scenario.

You Silent1, are a cynic sir.

Davi

17,153 posts

250 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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ratbane said:
Digga said:
There was something I saw in the papers a few weeks ago about a large (totally harmless) fly which is becmming more common in the UK. Except now in Aberdeen.

If it were a hornet, and it doesn't look like one, don't kill 'em. Ever so often we get them falling down our chimney into the wood burner and just put them in a box and release them outside. Contrary to popular belief, hornets are no more or less dangerous than bees or wasps and are generally less aggressive.
Tell that to the hornets who hospitalised me. 19 stings off the little critters in 1985. I've been stung by a stack of wasps, and bees, and the hornets were far more aggressive, and the venom more potent. They wouldn't give up the fight even when I jumped in a river.
hehe also tell it to the bloke that removed the hornets nest from my FIL's place, who's usual buddy was in hospital after just a couple of stings.

Landlord

12,689 posts

287 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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ratbane said:
They wouldn't give up the fight even when I jumped in a river.
Hornets are fkers. I cut ones head off the other day and it's body was still arched oved and "thrusting" - trying to sting anything in it's way.

Silent1

19,762 posts

265 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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captainzep said:
Silent1 said:
captainzep said:
Good stuff Oakey. You are Bill Odie AICMFP etc.

Is that, its... wanger hanging down from its abdomen?

I'm just thinking what I'd look like if I was clinging to a tree trunk naked.
A sexual pervert
HTH
Not, necessarily. There are a myriad of possible albeit unlikely reasons why I could find myself in that scenario.

You Silent1, are a cynic sir.
yes i may be, but you sir are most clearly of the depraved mind.

Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

224 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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Hornet stings are so so painful! You'd be begging for a couple of wasp stings to replace the hornet sting. They arent dangerous to adult humans (no more so than wasp or bees as said previously) but they do hurt like a biatch!!!

wildoliver

9,318 posts

246 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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ratbane said:
Digga said:
There was something I saw in the papers a few weeks ago about a large (totally harmless) fly which is becmming more common in the UK. Except now in Aberdeen.

If it were a hornet, and it doesn't look like one, don't kill 'em. Ever so often we get them falling down our chimney into the wood burner and just put them in a box and release them outside. Contrary to popular belief, hornets are no more or less dangerous than bees or wasps and are generally less aggressive.
Tell that to the hornets who hospitalised me. 19 stings off the little critters in 1985. I've been stung by a stack of wasps, and bees, and the hornets were far more aggressive, and the venom more potent. They wouldn't give up the fight even when I jumped in a river.
This sounds suspiciously like a scenario I would love to watch (from a safe distance) with cold beer in hand while crying with laughter.

Puff Puff

23,205 posts

256 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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It was 2" long, it was on the wall of your house, you didn't know what it was so you killed it.

Bit harsh wasn't it?

jollygreen

Original Poster:

21,480 posts

232 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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Puff Puff said:
It was 2" long, it was on the wall of your house, you didn't know what it was so you killed it.

Bit harsh wasn't it?
No, not with a puppy or a toddler likely to pluck it off the wall and try to play with it/eat it/stick it in it's ear

jollygreen

Original Poster:

21,480 posts

232 months

Wednesday 17th September 2008
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Oh and it was definitely blue and yellow, not black and yellow! The pictures don't really show it that well!