Looks what I found while walking the dogs.

taltos · 05-22-2009, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Thrak

Are those bees or hornets? I had a couple gigantic hornets flying around me the other day.. not kidding, they were at least 2-2.5" long. You could feel the wind when they flew by.

I guess they liked the smell of my Padilla Habano

Those are honey bees. Those giant wasps are probably cicada killers, also known as locust killers and are basically harmless and rarely sting. It is possible that they could be tarantula hawks but that would be very rare in your part of the country.

Thrak · 05-22-2009, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by taltos

Those are honey bees. Those giant wasps are probably cicada killers, also known as locust killers and are basically harmless and rarely sting. It is possible that they could be tarantula hawks but that would be very rare in your part of the country.

Rarely sting? Man I hope so, they were pretty intimidating!!

taltos · 05-22-2009, 06:13 AM

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Rarely sting? Man I hope so, they were pretty intimidating!!

The ones who were acting in an aggressive manner can't sting, they are males. One suggestion that might help is not to walk on your lawn in bare feet. The wasps live in burrows and the best chance for getting stung is if you step on one of the females while she is emerging from the burrow after leaving food for the emerging young.