Help identifying bug

Kuriin

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Found this monster of a hornet outside by the pool and I'm wondering what it is? It looks like a spider hawk hornet, except its got the coloring of a yellow jacket (somewhat). However, the size of the hornet exceeds that of a yellow jacket. Region is Texas.


edit: Looks like it could be a Cicada Killer Wasp.

Size was about 2 inches long and the width was about a half inch to inch.

 

Homsar

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Not sure, Are there giant Japanese hornets in the US? I know that isn't onehttp://softypapa.files.wordpress.com...0/img_5842.jpg

 

iannis

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• Jul 22, 2013

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runtime c++ error

 

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Kaosu

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• Jul 22, 2013

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

 

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Astral Projection_sl

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Looks like a waspling. Loot table is junk only.

 

Noodleface

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• Jul 22, 2013

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Burn down your house and run. Never look back

 

Famm

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• Jul 22, 2013

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I can identify it but I need you to let me know what it tastes like first.

 

TheBeagle

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• Jul 23, 2013

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Definitely a cicada killer, I collected one for my specimen collection in my Entomology class last year.

 

Gavinmad

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• Jul 23, 2013

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They're diggers, and non-aggressive to humans so unless their nest is somewhere inconvenient for you, you don't have to worry about them aside from the occasional freak-out at seeing a fuckin godzilla monster fly past.

 

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• Jul 23, 2013

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Looks like a whole lotta' arthropodofuckyouintheass to me

 

Izo

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• Jul 23, 2013

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Pthirus pubis.

 

Tuco

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• Jul 23, 2013

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Gavinrad_sl said:

They're diggers, and non-aggressive to humans so unless their nest is somewhere inconvenient for you, you don't have to worry about them aside from the occasional freak-out at seeing a fuckin godzilla monster fly past.

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bullshit those are maneating monsters. Here's photographic evidence of approrpiate responses to them

 

Furry

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• Jul 23, 2013

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Ill add to the chorus. Definitely a cicada killer. They're huge but mostly harmless. The paper wasps and killer bees are the only ones you need to watch out for randomly attacking you in texas.

 

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Troll_sl

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• Jul 23, 2013

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And this is why I don't like leaving western Oregon.

 

Izo

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• Jul 23, 2013

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Troll_sl said:

And this is why I don't like leaving western Oregon.

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Wat?

http://www.venombyte.com/venom/spide...lack_widow.asp
http://www.venombyte.com/venom/spide...s_by_state.asp

 

Kaige

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• Jul 23, 2013

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Seeing stuff like that makes me glad I only lived in Florida for a year. That state has some monster bugs. You can step on them, but that just pisses them off.

 

Noodleface

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• Jul 23, 2013

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I have an incapacitating fear of bees. That thing won't sting usually it says, but I would be paralyzed and probably give myself my own last rites if I saw one in front of me

 

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Troll_sl

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• Jul 24, 2013

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Izo_sl said:

Wat?

http://www.venombyte.com/venom/spide...lack_widow.asp
http://www.venombyte.com/venom/spide...s_by_state.asp

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These are so rare, it's ridiculous. I've literally seen one in over 20 years living here and it was in a wood pile. It ran immediately.

 

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• Jul 24, 2013

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Troll_sl said:

These are so rare, it's ridiculous. I've literally seen one in over 20 years living here and it was in a wood pile. It ran immediately.

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I have never seen one, but I've seen their egg sacs. They are quite distinctive. Luckily, black widows rarely come indoors. Brown recluses are far more dangerous.

 

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Psypher_sl

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• Jul 24, 2013

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Troll_sl said:

These are so rare, it's ridiculous. I've literally seen one in over 20 years living here and it was in a wood pile. It ran immediately.

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Either I'm unlucky, or they aren't that rare here in Georgia. I killed 2 in a home I was in about 2 years ago and then ran into another one that was hiding under the handle of a campground water spigot.