The internet tells me it’s a “female ichneumon wasp”. Doesn’t sting, but looks like it might colonize your planet if left unattended.
by felixjmorgan
The internet tells me it’s a “female ichneumon wasp”. Doesn’t sting, but looks like it might colonize your planet if left unattended.
by felixjmorgan
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It can get fucked as far as I’m concerned
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Oh thats the Guildford common stabbybitch, very venomous
Tell it to fuck off mate
That’s amazing, I would love to get one in my house (though I’d politely show it the door)
That thing is the reason missiles were invented
Just made me close my windows a bit
https://preview.redd.it/k19pl5zgd38f1.jpeg?width=209&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ab0896d4d9cbcb891326b5511f99cd9fa55865d
Please don’t hurt her!
She’s probably just got lost while trying to find somewhere to lay eggs. The really long thing on the end of her abdomen is an ovipositor, essentially a long tube for egg laying in precise locations.
I’m this close to moving to Greenland
Keep your holes covered – that’s not a stinger, it’s for laying eggs / an ovipositor. They made a film about it, it’s called Alien.
Tell it to jog on mate
“Bugs Sir, Big, huge, ugly, honkin’ bugs!”
An extra virtual upvote if your reference is from the same episode.
Parasitic wasps? Nuh uh, nope, no, sorry. I’ve seen Fortitude.
Some sort of wood wasp. You notice them all over the place if you look, most are quite small, bit you get some bloody big ones.
https://preview.redd.it/vdgj8rzlf38f1.jpeg?width=786&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=162ac938bb134782162f24e8020f445f8f49472e
Friend! Here’s one I found a while ago. I love them.
‘You can’t fly there. mate’.
wood wasp?
There is actually a Guildford near me here in Western Australia…
Had one of those fly around my back door yesterday probing the little holes in the brickwork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford%2C_Western_Australia?wprov=sfla1
Sorry, had to be that guy
https://preview.redd.it/fziavzhwg38f1.jpeg?width=1087&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c83ae4784496063120ff339da54dcdc9e67462ed
How weird, I just found one in my kitchen and then immediately saw this post. Looks like the invasion is truly underway.
Had one of these land on me the other day in the garden. Normally terrified of wasps but as it wasn’t an SAS geared up Yellowjacket killing machine I managed to remain calm
Welcome to weird climate change shit
This is the scariest thing to happen in Guildford since Cheryl Cole spent an eventful night out in the Drink
Saw something extremely similar looking a couple of days ago in Hull actually, give or take 5 feet or so.
Time to spread managed democracy
Burn the house down and start a new life in another city
Bill Gates is smiling, and the plan is underway
That’s in guildford? I need to get out of here
Wimps on here
Looks like a sabre wasp
I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
Please don’t lay eggs in my brain, or, if you do and end up controlling my body please make better decisions than I have.
Type of woodwasp perhaps? I’ve only ever seen one, which looked a bit different from this, but had similar long “stinger”, which is actually for burrowing into wood to lay eggs I believe. Maybe this is a different sub species?!
Pretty sure you’re in Australia except you’ve been stung. The toxins in the venom have brought on a delrious state which makes you think you’re in Guilford.
Man, the insects are coming back!! This is great news.
These wasps look spooky, but they are parasitic wasps that attack insects and spiders. Wikipedia tells me there are more species of this kind of wasp than mammals and birds *combined*. They keep nasty bug numbers low.
What in the David Attenborough hell is it?
One of our many, many parasitic wasp species. They’re completely harmless to humans, and fascinating creatures. Be kind to them!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/250434-Xorides
Here’s some info on them ☺️
This is so bizarre seeing this post! I’ve just had one in my kitchen in Bristol!
https://preview.redd.it/58wt6xp1n38f1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82578e8eb85c5e2fa9948ce0055d220d890bb1ad
Once watched a fight between a smaller version of one of those and a spider. The spider did not go quietly, but ended up being dragged into a small hole at the base of a wall.
Yeah that’s a “fuck that” from the latin name “fuckius et thatius”
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