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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  3. Oh thats the Guildford common stabbybitch, very venomous

  5. That’s amazing, I would love to get one in my house (though I’d politely show it the door)

  9. 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.

  11. 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.

  13. “Bugs Sir, Big, huge, ugly, honkin’ bugs!”

    An extra virtual upvote if your reference is from the same episode.

  14. Parasitic wasps? Nuh uh, nope, no, sorry. I’ve seen Fortitude.

  15. 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.

  19. There is actually a Guildford near me here in Western Australia…

  20. Had one of those fly around my back door yesterday probing the little holes in the brickwork.

  23. 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

  25. This is the scariest thing to happen in Guildford since Cheryl Cole spent an eventful night out in the Drink

  26. Saw something extremely similar looking a couple of days ago in Hull actually, give or take 5 feet or so.

  28. Burn the house down and start a new life in another city

  33. 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.

  34. 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?!

  35. 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.

  36. 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.

  38. One of our many, many parasitic wasp species. They’re completely harmless to humans, and fascinating creatures. Be kind to them!

  41. 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.

  42. Yeah that’s a “fuck that” from the latin name “fuckius et thatius”

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