My husband just found one (we think) untangling itself from a spiders web in out garage this evening. Gave us all the shivers yet AMAZING to look at. We managed to get it in a cup and get a good look at it, even took a few pictures of it. Hope it finds a home far away from ours. This one spent a lot of time cleaning its wings/sharpening its sting! It is possible that there may be more in out garage now that we have found one?
I found one today, I'm already petrified of wasps so to see this new big scarey fly, i squirted Detol on it and killed it. I have kept the body to show my partner how scarey it looks - does anyone know if these do sting, as I have read that the thing that looks like a stinger is actually where the eggs come from.
I have just seen one in Alnwick, Northumberland,on the garden table so made an effort to identify it. What a wonderful tool www is, thanks to all those have previously commented on this strange blighter.
Do the males also have things that appear as ovipositors that are not functional, because I have taken a photo of what would appear to be one of these ichneumons, but it has no visible ovipositor.
Please assist if you can - I am very confused as all the pictures I can find do indeed have 'tails'. HELP ME PLEASE.
So glad to find out what insect this is. I have found quite a few on the inside of our window when it is open. They have flown off though when I have got near. Couldn't find it in any insect book. I must admit I found the tail quite frightening!
Does anyone know if they sting and if so how badly?
One flew in my kitchen in Oxfordshire. I googled it and it came up as Pimpla sanguinipes, bright read legs...scared the heebie jeebies out of me, I had to kill it. However, since read that it is not native to UK...should I notify anyone?
The one I swatted was not the one in the pic. I downloaded the pic.
the one I swatted in sheer panic was buzzing around my head. It was not cold blooded murder, more a survival instinct on my part in the face of a terrifying critter.
Of course I regretted it when it had died and I had plucked up the courage to return to the kitchen to go and have a better look at it about an hour later. The kids had also fled and at this point were able to return to their now cold supper....sorry
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This one spent a lot of time cleaning its wings/sharpening its sting!
It is possible that there may be more in out garage now that we have found one?
Please assist if you can - I am very confused as all the pictures I can find do indeed have 'tails'. HELP ME PLEASE.
Does anyone know if they sting and if so how badly?
One flew in my kitchen in Oxfordshire. I googled it and it came up as Pimpla sanguinipes, bright read legs...scared the heebie jeebies out of me, I had to kill it. However, since read that it is not native to UK...should I notify anyone?
I thought they were scorpions and it was all to do with climate change
The one I swatted was not the one in the pic. I downloaded the pic.
the one I swatted in sheer panic was buzzing around my head. It was not cold blooded murder, more a survival instinct on my part in the face of a terrifying critter.
Of course I regretted it when it had died and I had plucked up the courage to return to the kitchen to go and have a better look at it about an hour later. The kids had also fled and at this point were able to return to their now cold supper....sorry