Giant Asian Hornet

[edric]

Knocked this out of the air with a Sabal palmetto frond petiole, because I thought it was an Asian Hornet, but it has slightly different markings, and does not have a real yellow head either, did I kill it for naught? thanks, Ed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki73jfm3rhI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B7QbGgFFdI

[GSF]

My crippling uneducated guess would be something in the wasp family. I can't really say tho.

[RHBee]

Is this what you have? If so it's called a Cicada Killer.

[Dallasbeek]

Is that good or bad?

[divemaster1963]

It depends on how much sleep you want to get when the 17 year cycle of the mass cecada birth hits your area : :-\ 8-)

John

[RHBee]

Is that good or bad?

No threat to honeybees that I know of.

It depends on how much sleep you want to get when the 17 year cycle of the mass cecada birth hits your area : :-\ 8-)

John

LOL

[Better.to.Bee.than.not]

you killed it because it's creepy. good 'nuff for me....

[Jim134]

Pix of Giant Asian Hornet

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEV1sATZ1TuhIAVoFXNyoA?p=asian+giant+hornet+pictures&fr=yfp-t-250-s&fr2=piv-web


          BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

[edric]

Thanks all, I killed it for naught, and I beg your forgiveness, they are no threat to Honey bees at all, I had no way of knowing it was a Cicada killer, it was moving so fast, the possibility of a threat to my bees made me panic, Ed

[RHBee]

No biggie,  I'd have killed the big thing myself. Just cause it's a wasp. I hate wasps big or little, they are dead meat.

[johnnie1uk]

Thanks all, I killed it for naught, and I beg your forgiveness, they are no threat to Honey bees at all, I had no way of knowing it was a Cicada killer, it was moving so fast, the possibility of a threat to my bees made me panic, Ed

Remind me not to move to fast when im in your vicinity!

[edric]

Thanks guys, Ed