Theres this bee looking thing that flys around my house every so often. Its huge. Its reddish brown with white stripes. And it is loud. Louder than other flying insects. I can hear and see it comming 200 yds away, no lie. I've seen them at a work site. It was burried under saw dust, so I thought it was a carpenter bee, but I looked it up and none of the pictures even came close to it. I looked up flies and bees, none of them looked like it. A friend said it was a japanese hornet. So I looked that up and it wasn't that either. Has anyone else seen these bugs? Does any one know what they are?
2006-07-25 06:31:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I don't know.. I just looked at some pictures. Some look close but the insect I saw is more bee like. The wings on the locusts are not as big on this insect.
2006-07-25 06:41:08 · update #1
Capturing it? Im too scared to get within 10 ft of this thing. Its fast. Real fast.
2006-07-25 06:42:42 · update #2
It isn't one of those cicada killers. I looked at that one as well.. It is about the size of my palm. More brown than anything, fuzzy, and its wide. More like a carpenter bee but its not that small and round.
2006-07-25 06:49:06 · update #3
I think it is one of these:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/23595
It is a cicada killer wasp, and it sounds a lot like your description.
2006-07-25 06:45:42 · answer #1 · answered by Nosy Parker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adult Cicada Killer Wasps are large, 1.5 to 5 cm (2/3 to 2 inches) long, robust wasps with reddish and black areas on the thorax (middle part) and are marked with various combinations of black, reddish brown and light yellow stripes on the abdominal (rear) segments. The wings are brownish. Coloration may superficially resemble that of yellowjackets or hornets. Queen European hornets (Vespa crabro) are often mistaken for cicada killers.*
I found this in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_killer_wasp#Description
They usually fly close to the ground in sweeping patterns through out the yard. They hunt locust (cattydids)? above and below ground. The ones I see are usually about 1 1/2" to 2" long, and I don't usually start seeing them until the locusts start their mating calls (buzzing) in the heat of the summer.
Hope this helps.
ps....By the way, don't try to catch one because they will chase and sting you. They have a really bad temper.
2006-07-25 06:55:22 · answer #2 · answered by yep_yep_2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think it could be a cicada?
Try looking under entomology on the web.
Maybe try capturing one in a jar and taking it to your county agent.
You might also want to show it to an exterminator. If HE can't identify it maybe he can tell you who to ask.
2006-07-25 06:38:53 · answer #3 · answered by Renee D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a jerusalem tulip roach
found only in the state of the phillipines
and migrates to the U.S only when its on a world tour with the beatles
or when Peru and Jamaica have no vaccancies.
2006-07-25 06:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no count if that's a beetle, that's probable a potato beetle. they're rather person-friendly in usa and have distinctive dark and dwindled brown stripes stripes. in case you be attentive to what form of trojan horse that's, what state or united states that's in, or the different information i would be waiting to help extra.
2016-11-02 23:33:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's a locust.
2006-07-25 06:48:34 · answer #6 · answered by Z-Cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mabe a locust
2006-07-25 06:36:12 · answer #7 · answered by terry s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be a large hornet or mud wasp
2006-07-25 06:37:45 · answer #8 · answered by donley z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catch one and take it to your local pest exterminator. They might be able to tell you.
2006-07-25 06:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by ModelFlyerChick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it a locust?
2006-07-25 06:33:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋