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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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[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

I've now had a bit of a poke through wikipedia, and it's possible that it's some odd kind of bee or a hornet, rather than a wasp.

Come to think of it, apart from the colour, it looks very close to this little bugger (http://www.cirrusimage.com/Bald-faced_hornet.htm).

Aha! Gotcha. It was, yes, a hornet. Play snap with these guys (http://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk/jjjwb_insects.htm) and spot the one which looks just like the one in my photo, colour included. Vespa Crabro, the standard British hornet, apparently our largest wasp. So I was right, after a fashion :)

Thank you for asking; I now know far more about wasps and bees than I knew before!