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View Poll Results: Is this the scariest bug in britain? | |
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09-07-2010, 04:27 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Jul 2010
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| | | Monster Bug
Hi, can anyone identify this flying insect found in my garden this morning? I'm sure it was trying to lay eggs in my wooded plank border.
It was about 3 inches long, flies, and get me a fright, I can tell you! 
Any help to stop me panicking gratefully received!
B |
09-07-2010, 04:35 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 2,757
| | | Re: Monster Bug
It's a lovely Horntail - Urocerus gigas. They do lay eggs in wood, usually pine. It's a female! I get them in my kitchen every year.
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10-07-2010, 09:31 PM
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| | | Re: Monster Bug
Brilliant! Thanks very much |
13-07-2010, 09:27 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northants.
Posts: 11,628
| | | Re: Monster Bug
I had one in my garden they are harmless and very interesting insects...love em.. |
13-07-2010, 09:48 PM
|  | New Member | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: East Riding of Yorkshire
Posts: 24
| | | Re: Monster Bug
bejaysus!! @3 inches long are you sure it wasn't trying to fly off with you wooded plank border  |
13-07-2010, 09:52 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Romford, Essex
Posts: 5,355
| | | Re: Monster Bug
Those big 2-3cm long, fat horseflies get my vote! |
14-07-2010, 06:36 AM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nanjing, China
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I voted no because it's blatantly not a bug.  |
14-07-2010, 08:23 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
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Horntails are beauties!
+1 for massive tabinids  |
17-07-2010, 02:56 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: East Riding of Yorkshire
Posts: 24
| | | Re: Monster Bug
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo  Those big 2-3cm long, fat horseflies get my vote! | Oh god! yes, they are beasts. I got chewed on twice by one of those.
Here is a funny story from a blog i found about an horsefly attack The Top 4 Lessons I learned from a Horsefly Attack |
17-07-2010, 09:29 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Verwood, Dorset
Posts: 602
| | | Re: Monster Bug
thank you for that link. funniest thing i have read in a long time. Lesson one though should actually be train the wife to hit it in the first place 
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