Giant Wasp

   / Giant Wasp
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#11  
Muhammad Ali - "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see."

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   / Giant Wasp
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#12  
Wyo Wasp ....Not a Nickels Worth of Difference...or is that a Quarter ?
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   / Giant Wasp #13  
Harmless!!!
 
   / Giant Wasp #15  
Get them every year in the lawn. They look nasty but never had a bad encounter with one. They are impressive hauling a payload of cicadas to their burrow. When you first see one you think it is a giant yellow jacket and run like ****. They will buzz you but never seem to attack anything but cicadas.
 
   / Giant Wasp #16  
Good to know.. I will refrain, from whacking them.
 
   / Giant Wasp #17  
Wyo Wasp ....Not a Nickels Worth of Difference...or is that a Quarter ?
:)

That would be a quarter. It was a whopper.

I'm inclined to leave them alone as well, but that stinger really looks like it could do a number on you.

A couple years ago I got nervous about a colony of black wasps living under my deck, so I wiped them out one morning while they were all cold and lethargic. Then I read that they are very passive, and that their primary prey is black widow spiders. I still feel bad about killing them all.
 
   / Giant Wasp #18  
We have small wasps that live in the ground in large colonies. Name for them around here is "Ginny wasps". Step on their home and you get 8-12 stings within a half second. Very painful. Had to rush a dog to the vet when she made that mistake.
 
   / Giant Wasp #19  
Think i saw one of these shortly after reading the post. It was digging a hole and was 3-4" long. I left it alone, ive never seen such a big wasp
 
   / Giant Wasp #20  
They do make quite a mess in a manicured lawn. The elderly neighbor lady just hates them. For several years she would call me about this time of year to dispatch as many as I could. I kept telling her they are harmless. But they scared her and she didn't like the numerous dirt piles.



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