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PostPosted: 16:27 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Dear insect-phobic, please look away now... Reply with quote
...this was found in my mate's water butt!!! Anyone any ideas? What in the name of all that is holy is something like that doing in this country??! I've told him to contact the Natural History Museum or the Royal Entomological Society to find out what it is. I'll let you know what he finds out!!!

https://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/533345_423060937738977_1061594865_n.jpg
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PostPosted: 16:32 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmm, I believe it is a very rare creature known as a wasp.

I think you should call M.I.B.
Or maybe it's a hornet Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 16:33 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hornet wasp type thingy
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carlosthejack...
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PostPosted: 16:34 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Alpha-9 wrote:
Hmm, I believe it is a very rare creature known as a wasp.

I think you should call M.I.B.
Or maybe it's a hornet Mr. Green


Most wasps I've ever seen ain't been an inch and a half long...
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PostPosted: 16:37 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
carlosthejackal wrote:
Alpha-9 wrote:
Hmm, I believe it is a very rare creature known as a wasp.

I think you should call M.I.B.
Or maybe it's a hornet Mr. Green


Most wasps I've ever seen ain't been an inch and a half long...


Hornets are, but it looks more like a wasp than a hornet. Plus it's probably swollen form being sat in water.

Looks like a male red wasp from the V. rufa family https://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds3/dolichovespulanorwegica01.jpg
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
This isn't my mate's water butt wasp, but it's equally horrible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFKQaU25puI
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PostPosted: 17:39 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks like a pound coin to me.
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PostPosted: 17:45 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Redoko wrote:
Looks like a pound coin to me.


That's a ruler you idiot Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 17:46 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's a hornet.

Nothing to see here, carry on...
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PostPosted: 17:46 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
JonB wrote:
It's a hornet.

Nothing to see here, carry on...


I concur, they start off that small and grow into one of these https://bikeinfo.co.uk/honda%20hornet%20600.jpg
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Redoko wrote:
Looks like a pound coin to me.


It's my pound coin, can i have it back please.

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carlosthejack...
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PostPosted: 18:59 - 22 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Alpha-9 wrote:
JonB wrote:
It's a hornet.

Nothing to see here, carry on...


I concur, they start off that small and grow into one of these https://bikeinfo.co.uk/honda%20hornet%20600.jpg


And occasionally in black...

https://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/258928_10150207764697511_3695618_o.jpg
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