No need to be done with this thread, ttg...you have a living creature trapped in a tub and I'm just curious as to what the next step is, maybe you have a local wildlife group that could offer some advice.
I've seen them several times in France. We had ordinary hornets at my old house in France but they were quite peaceful, never tried to sting or attack us, unlike some wasps which were quite nasty.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I think the problem is the newspapers have run lots of ‘killer Asian hornet’ scare stories over the last few years, so people see a hornet and assume it’s a lethal killer, when in the vast majority of cases it’s a native European hornet, which has a sting about the same as a wasp sting. Most Asian hornet sightings are actually European hornets
It could be a wood wasp, which is a completely harmless insect. You've asked for advice, but for some reason don't want to hear it. If you, or someone else, can put it in something where it can be IDd, as @Dovefromabove suggests, then it would solve the problem.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You've asked for advice, but for some reason don't want to hear it. If you, or someone else, can put it in something where it can be IDd, as @Dovefromabove suggests, then it would solve the problem.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...