I am totally crazy or maybe I just telling wild stories about a picture I found.Posted on 09/21/2007 8:40:05 PM PDT by abner
Alright, I am at a loss and am posting my first real vanity post.
Stupid I know so try to go easy. I am trying to identify a giant hornet or bee. This thing has been hanging out on our outside light for at least 2 evenings. Tonight I had my better half take photos.
In looking at forums, I haven't really been able to identify this other than the frightening Asian Giant Hornet. I really don't want this to be that as it would have a tendency to really freak me out.
Whatever this is is about 2 inches long and at least one of its kind is active in the evening.
For some really cool pics of the monster - see here: http://www.usflagballoon.com/2007season/hornetorbee.htm
Not slow at all.. Very fast. My other half was going really fast taking the pics. Light on, light off... I was inside doing the light on/off thing. I know carpenter bees. This isn’t a carpenter bee.
We are good. Going to ABQ in a few weeks with 3 balloons now! And you?
We could lose on that one. It is too fast!
Hmmm...
Here’s the snake thread:
Vanity Help identify this snake found in my bedroom! Please!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/735901/posts
Thanks! I appreciate the great advice!
Ahh... my first. Thanks.
From A guide to Familiar American Insects: "This large solitary wasp digs a borrow a foot or so deep. In side passages the female stores adult cicadas which she has paralyzed by stinging. The heavy cidadas are dragged up a tree by the killer till she can get enough altitude to fly back to her burrow. When the egg hatches, the larva feeds on the helpless cidada. In a week it is full grown and pupates in a loose cocoon. It emerges the following summer, completing it life cycle."
They are generally not aggressive towards humans. Around my house we have a healthy tolerance for each other. I consider them a good sign that nature continues to survive and that this insect is vital to the ecology, as they always have been.
They are pretty cool.. Thanks Ron. How are you?
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Wow.. .With that photo, I think you may be right. This one is HUGE though. 2 inches.. . Do they normally come out at night?
Oooh... Don’t go there... I used to own a junk yard.
As nice is it is to just spray something on a bee wasp or whatever so its wings melt/gum up or whatever. Just remember that guy will still sting you even crawling around if he gets the chance.
I must have killed a thousand wasps one summer painting houses. Usually every house would have at least one wasp nest (usually no bigger than your fist) somewhere under the eaves etc. I got pretty good at doing the lit aerosol can flamethrower thing which if done right would singe at least enough of all the wings of the wasps and you would see them drop like rocks to the ground.
There was always the occasional missed wasp, which usually happened when you were doing the routine on a high ladder, but hey we had to get the houses painted and knocking the nest down and coming back the next day was not an option.
But I can remember that those wasps would still crawl around and one stung me on the butt while I was eating lunch. O well.
I am totally crazy or maybe I just telling wild stories about a picture I found.If it doesn't fight back, it's a Democrat.
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