It’s easier to show than to describe. Can anyone tell me what this is?
I saw it in Queens, NYC this morning.
It is approximately one inch long.
dead
Alive (video)
Looks very much like a hornet to me. But then, I’m not entirely sure of the subtleties and differences in the various wasp species.
Thanks!
YAY… the mystery from 1979 resolved.
I saw one of these when I was a kid, and knowing what a nest of yellow-jackets feel like personally.
I slowly backed away from what ever this monster-jacket was…and hoping I wasn’t near its brothers.
This was as close I could come to the suspect bee, but this didn’t have the same look.
It looked more like this, a yellow-jacket/Hornet with a black bottom.
http://saltthesandbox.org/cicada_hunt/more_killers_hand_35.jpg
Now, if I can find out what lizard looks like a standard Florida lizard but metallic deep blue-green turquoise, like it was dipped in some Testors metallic hobby paint…:dubious:
Wasn’t a chameleon type either, easy to spot the difference.
This…
http://www.zinnysworld.com/Reptiles/anole,%20b%20-%20P050509-7132w.jpg
Covered with this over the black…
Here 25 years never saw one like that. 
Something like this?
I read a fact sheet on the Cicada Killer and it must have repeated about 20 times that the Cicada Killer wasp is NOT known to sting humans. The males, which have no sting, sometimes do aggressive fly-bys which freak people out but they cannot hurt you. The females, which do have a sting, are retiring and cautious.