We found this flying around the office this afternoon:



I don't know how well the picture shows it, but that sting (or rather harpoon) sticking out of the dangerous end is half a centimetre long. Enough to get down to the bone we think.

We have it trapped in a macaroon box but now we're terrified it might be transmitting some fiendish insect hormones to call the rest of it's swarm at which point we'd be in a spot of bother.

If anyone can identify this creature and let us know what exactly the dangers are - in particular, how fast will we need to be running when we release it, or is it best kept incarcerated?

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Get one of those cans of wasp/hornet spray that can shoot 30'. Then blast it!

If anyone can identify this creature and let us know what exactly the dangers are - in particular, how fast will we need to be running when we release it, or is it best kept incarcerated?

Release????? If I had that flying around my house I'd be in all out chemical warfare mode. 2 cans of Raid and shooting anything that moved. LOL

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We found this flying around the office this afternoon:
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If anyone can identify this creature and let us know what exactly the dangers are - in particular, how fast will we need to be running when we release it, or is it best kept incarcerated?

Hello Andy,

No Panic!
Guess that is a "Woodwasp" (I don't know the correct english term).
They use the "sting" to drill into wood and then lay their eggs.
This insects do nothing to humans, so relax.
Do you have a wooden ceiling, or walls made of wood?
Some years ago we got a new wooden ceiling in our office, and a few of this
wasps came out of the wood.
Perhaps you research the Internet for Hymenoptera, Subordo Symphyta "Plantwasps"

Greetings
Ro

Hi Ro,

thanks for the reasurrance - I'm afraid I was last to leave the office today and couldn't plck up the courage to release "Horace". He looked madder & madder the longer he was in there and self preservation instinct took over.

If he's still in there in the morning, I'll ask Barry to let him out - he put him in the box in the first place ;)

Greets

Andy

PS - thanks chaps - trouble with the can idea is the creature in question needs to be in the same airspace - he looks like he can move pretty fast - particularly when angered by impromtu imprisonment!

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PS - thanks chaps - trouble with the can idea is the creature in question needs to be in the same airspace - he looks like he can move pretty fast - particularly when angered by impromtu imprisonment!

I can understand that. I guess I just have lots of practice at the chemical warfare method of stinging insect control and can pick off those suckers before they ever knew what hit them :P

@ Ro - Thanks for the short course in insect ID. I learned something from it :)

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To truly explore, one must keep an open mind...

PS - thanks chaps - trouble with the can idea is the creature in question needs to be in the same airspace - he looks like he can move pretty fast - particularly when angered by impromtu imprisonment!

I can understand that. I guess I just have lots of practice at the chemical warfare method of stinging insect control and can pick off those suckers before they ever knew what hit them :P

@ Ro - Thanks for the short course in insect ID. I learned something from it :)

I'm having an Entemologyist friend of mine look at the pic he should be able to tell me exactly what it is.

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We found this flying around the office this afternoon:



I don't know how well the picture shows it, but that sting (or rather harpoon) sticking out of the dangerous end is half a centimetre long. Enough to get down to the bone we think.

We have it trapped in a macaroon box but now we're terrified it might be transmitting some fiendish insect hormones to call the rest of it's swarm at which point we'd be in a spot of bother.

If anyone can identify this creature and let us know what exactly the dangers are - in particular, how fast will we need to be running when we release it, or is it best kept incarcerated?

It's a woodwasp! Must be a small one....They get bigger
and thier stinger looks more like a chain saw as they age....

http://www.invasive.org/images/3072x2048/1258243.jpg

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It's a woodwasp! Must be a small one....They get bigger
and thier stinger looks more like a chain saw as they age....

If I saw one of those things flying by, (before knowing the purpose of the 'stinger') I would instantly void my bowels! :o

We found this flying around the office this afternoon:



I don't know how well the picture shows it, but that sting (or rather harpoon) sticking out of the dangerous end is half a centimetre long. Enough to get down to the bone we think.

We have it trapped in a macaroon box but now we're terrified it might be transmitting some fiendish insect hormones to call the rest of it's swarm at which point we'd be in a spot of bother.

If anyone can identify this creature and let us know what exactly the dangers are - in particular, how fast will we need to be running when we release it, or is it best kept incarcerated?

It's a woodwasp! Must be a small one....They get bigger
and thier stinger looks more like a chain saw as they age....

http://www.invasive.org/images/3072x2048/1258243.jpg

That so called stinger is in fact "the" male organ. [b]Sting away![b]

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