Silly Sod

Help Michiganders!!!

I have just killed the biggest bee type creature I have ever seen in my life. It was in our yard when I pulled up and almost flew in the car widow. It seemed pissed right off by the car and kept dive bombing it. I ran away leaving the keys in the car. I had to attack it with a broom and it took some killing.

It is about an inch long dead, alive it looked as big as my thumb. I have googled it and am wondering if it could be a queen yellowjacket? A site I found said they tend to be half inch long while the queen is almost an inch (this is an inch at least). What I am wondering is - and this may sound dumb but I have a total phobia of bees and especially wasps and even more especially dinosaur sized wasps!!! - is there any way it's buddies could know it is dead and start looking for revenge or something, I mean like, do they give of any distress chemicals and stuff. I am sitting here shivering and imagining them crawling all over the house.

Anyway, anyone had experience of these gargangtuan monster insects and am I right to be fearful?

britvic

You sound just like my OH he dose this sort of spastic dance when a Bee or Wasp is near him

Silly Sod

OMG - I am like that normally but this thing was a giant. It may even be some kind of new super species or something that had been long assumed extinct. I kid you not!!!

EDIT: In fact - I looked exactly like my avatar at the time.

TouristTrap

African Killer Bee.

DollyLlama

Poor you!

mikec81

Not seen any killer bees, but we had a huge black widow spider at the bottom of our stairs a couple of days ago. scared the crap out of me to be honest, never seen anything like it. a bloke i work with told me not to worry about them because all the nearby hospitals stocked the antidote to the venom. that really put me at ease......

TruBrit

you wanna be in houston m8...we have mozzies that big

Silly Sod

That is scary. I hate anything that can run/jump/fly or scurry faster than me while at the same time having the ability to deliver a big sting. Is TT serious about african killer bees?

britvic

Yes I've heard they are over here, think that's why anything like that set's my old man off.

Adnams

Well do you have the devil black wasps? We get these great big enormous things here which look like a wasp but are the size of small childs arm I kid ye not and are all black. They are evil, the devils sporn.
We call them the stealth wasps. And all they ever do is fly straight at you. What the hell are those things?

Silly Sod

I have just been out to photograph the corpse but the camera batteries are dead and I can;t find the charger. On top of that it is being devoured by a huge gang of ants. It is writhing about like it aint dead as they much the buggery out of it. I think it is defo a huge yellowjacket. I swear if I never see one of those things again it'll be far too soon!!!!

britvic

You better get out your Torch mate and have a check round the place

TouristTrap

Yes. Google it. I don't know if they've made it up that far

mikec81

We just had a warning that there are mozzies around here this year that are infected with something called West Nile disease, they have found some dead birds and mice who have been bitten by them. it can be contracted by humans as well, so if the spiders or the wasps dont get you, the mosquitos will....

TruBrit

yeah we have had them here for yrs......best not to go outside