About an hour ago there was this bug flying around my room - I sprayed it with Raid wasp and fly killer and upon picking it up once dead I was trying to work out what it was. It was not a wasp - it was bigger, but smaller than a bumble bee. I am thinking it was a hornet except it was not yellow and black. It was more black and brown looking and it had a pointy tail. What was it, as I am not sure it was a hornet. I thought hornets were meant to be black and yellow like a bee/wasp.
2007-04-19 13:30:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Clicking bees or wasps will allow you to browse a bunch of images and try to find out.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/12324/bgpage
These are another possibility
http://bugguide.net/node/view/226
2007-04-19 15:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by Strix 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Order Hymenoptera contains near 200000 species in 91 families. The Vespidae family have 4000 spp. of wasps, most with yellow/black colours, but some in brown, black, reddish colours.
2007-04-20 03:45:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be a flying ant. The big ones look a lot like a wasp.
2007-04-19 16:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A horse fly.
2007-04-19 23:47:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a picture reference?
2007-04-19 16:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by Kaiami 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lady bug?
2007-04-19 13:34:32 · answer #6 · answered by kingwizard101 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
can you send a pic??
2007-04-20 04:13:48 · answer #7 · answered by diggerdan57 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋