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[gothick]

Just found a wasp the size of St Paul’s Cathedral crawling across my lounge floor. Have now liberated it. Although in general such things as spiders and wasps etc. don’t bother me much, this one scared the willies out of me. I’ve put it behind a link for the wasp-averse.

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[fatal-logic.livejournal.com]

... And You Would Die.

There are different varieties of wasp around (or at least that's what the exterminator I had around last year told me) of different sizes and - er - temperament. I don't think it's a hornet, saw one of those at a safari place once and they're pretty scary.

Did it make any noise?

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Well, this one, even though it wasn't buzzing about much, was indeed pretty scary. It's hard to judge the scale from the photo: let's just say that I didn't fancy attacking it with a rolled-up newspaper in case it wrestled it away and beat the crap out of me with it.