This thing was chasing the kids around at the track this weekend. Nasty stinger on it! About 2.5 inches long!
Some kinda mutant.??? uzzled: We have some nasty-big hornets around here, but they are thick bodied and are black and yellow.
My son Matt first saw it on my slick as he was rubbing some stones off....man those Phoenix get sticky! Bug seemed to be eating the fresh rubber...... A new genus species: trackbugius maplegrovoius.... they feed on the starting line after the trackcloses. I think the heat from the track has gotten to me......:eek2: Bruce
There is a Humingbird moth thart mimics the hover of a real hummingbird. I have seen them in flight. Did it hover and dart around?
Yesterday, I was working and heard a locust buzzing around my head. I looked up to see what was going on and the locust crashed into the bed of my truck with a very large hornet/wasp holding onto him for dear life. The bee was about 2.5"- 3" long. He kept stinging the locust repeatedly until it was dead. He tried to fly off with the locust but couldn't pull the weight! Finally, I heard a light crunching sound and as I looked closer the bee was taking really large bites out of the locust's head, big enough to see. Well, that was enough for me as I'm allergic to bees so I hopped in the cab and locked the doors (in case that bee can pick locks!!) I tried to get a picture, but the crunching sound of the bee chewing the locusts head made me think twice.:laugh:
That is one mutant bug. Could be a crazy cross breed. You have herd the story about the Birds and the Bees??? They like to get freaky man:Brow: :beer o No: :eek2: ou:
Bruce, I've seen a few of these in Ohio as well, do not know what they are, but did not seem to try and sting me, thank god!. I was on a roll the last eight years or so, no bee stings at all, then this summer I have been stung close to a dozen or more times, crazy! yellow jackets everywhere. I am battling a big nest in the overhang of my house (soffet) tonight, I have had over a hundred bees enter the house, in the past few days, went to the local Sears hardware and bought 4 cans of bee spray, Nothing! must not be reaching the little suckers!. So I went to our local pest control and got some spray powder, to use overnight, Apicide is the name, supposed to kill them in 24 hrs, sure hope so. I stepped into the shower a few days ago and apllied shampoo to what is left of my hair, and went into the suds and rinse mode when a Damn bee stung me on the little toe! that did it for me, jumpin around the shower with soap in my eyes, trying to kill a little bee! Well I got him. and the rest shall perish this evening, by the way, My foot swelled up so bad I could barely get the work boot on! Bruce
That thing peaked my interest so i did a little searchin'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ichneumonid wasps: These wasps are all parasitoids of the immature stages of other insects. The adults range in size from small to very large, 1.5 to 120mm in length. They are often black or black and orange with white markings and many species have dark coloured wings. The females have long egg-laying instruments, called ovipositors. Many people think the ovipositor is a "sting" and that these wasps are dangerous to humans but this is not so. The female Ichneumon wasp finds a host insect, such as a caterpillar, and either: Pierces it with the ovipositor and deposits an egg inside the host insect or Lays an egg on the outside of the host insect. On hatching, the parasitoid larva either burrows into the host or remains external and inserts it mouthparts into the host to feed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sounds allot like that thing anywayso No:
Hummingbird moth Jim I happend to catch a pic of a hummingbird moth last year....I even use it as the wallpaper on my computer. Pic
I seem to be prone to bee, wasp, and yellow jacket stings. As a young child, they repeatedly stung me unprovoked. As an adult, the presence of any of these creatures at outdoor social events prompts me to run away and hide without trying to make too much of a scene. Although, that's hard to do with a 200lb guy hunched over, flailing his arms around his head with his eyes closed running away and screaming. There are a couple of hornets nests that have emerged in the backyard. On my to-do list is to take care of them as soon as I get a chance to pick up some more .308 ammo. :blast:
On the subject of weird insects, about a month ago I found a 1" long bug with glow-in-the-dark green eyes in the hallway -- I found it when I sa two green spots on the floor and tuned on the lights to see what it was. So what was it? I got no idea. -- Steve
