Great Black Wasp
 

Anyone else get these in their garden?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pieceoflace/2805662766/

Scare the bejesus out of me - supposedly none aggressive, but you could have fooled me, they get really angry if you get too close to them! Found one dead in the pool skimmer basket the other day and it's stinger was huge, never seen anything like it :eek:

Not my pic btw, too scared to get close to them!

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I don't want to move to Ontario now....:rofl:

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I've never seen so many different wasps as there is here - most of them leave you alone though, but these things are scary :eek:

Roll on winter - may they freeze to death :rofl:

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Glad to say no! Been a crazy year for wasps though. Our Oriole feeder is covered in big black and white ones...not seen an Oriole in weeks either.

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They are very dangerous, especially for the old or young.

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I believe they're bald faced hornets (which aren't actually hornets :confused:), seen a couple of those, but they seem to mind their own business...

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G77 you're doing a good job of putting my off the area I hate bugs!!:o

I am looking fwd to those wire mesh things in between the patio doors and windows though to stop them coming into the house:thumbup:

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Are you serious? I'm hardly young but not quite elderly yet, but I am allergic to wasp stings!,....:o


please, please, please tell me you're kidding!:rofl:

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I hate them too and there's LOTS of bugs here... Fortunately they don't make it inside, as we keep the doors closed and the AC cranked up :D

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Down here in New Jersey we get a large black/dark brown wasp...doesn't have pretty blue wings though.

Had a Cicada Killer Wasp in the kitchen a couple of years ago...or at least I think that's what it was. It was about 1 1/2" long.

Do you get Carpenter Bees in Canada? Huge bees that hover about 6" from your face.:scaredhair:

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I normally get bitten by everything during summers in Ontario except Horseflies....(thats a brusey bonus for me)....but wasps are something else!:o

You scary the crap out of me with your bug alerts:rofl:...I'll have to try and ignore them from now on!!:eek:

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Horse flies/deer flies love to bite me...along with just about every other biting or stinging bug. You can feel them biting and the bite lasts for months...I hate them. :mad:

Wasps are always attracted to me...they'll follow me as I try to walk away from them and not bother with anyone else. :frown:

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They just lurve you...:wub::rofl: Ants and another thing that bite me:frown:

I'm so glad those horseflies don't bother me, they dive bomb my OH...omg, they take lumps out of him.:(

All this talk of bugs isn't helping me with my move over....I hope you lot know that!!:eek:

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That made me smile.. I could have written the same thing about myself! I'm allergic to Mosquitoe bites and have been on Penicillin for that. Roll on Winter!

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I remember those being quite common while growing up in Ontario. They look pretty scary but I never got stung or bit by one.