This monstrosity just flew in to my room 🤢 Should these be in the UK?



by GodDammitPatricia

48 comments
  1. I have no idea but that dude looks very angry. Have you considered burning your house to the ground?

  2. That’s a European hornet, it’s a native species not an invader.

    On closer inspection it appears to be a male one, these guys only come out for a few days a year to mate with new queens then they die. Let our boy out to enjoy what little time he has left!

  3. Suck up progressively large spiders one at a time, hours of entertainment.

    Also report back if you managed to find a spider badarse enough to put up a fight.

  4. It’s a European hornet which are the only hornet species native to the UK. I believe they’re endangered.

  5. Like others have said European hornet. They are very docile compared to wasps but are attracted to light just like moths.

  6. There’s a great app called Asian Hornet Watch which is ideal for situations such as this. Asian Hornet’s are an invading species. This looks European though, which is endangered. One flew into my house the other day and I did the whole pint glass and beer mat trick and let it out the window, because I’m not a murderous pansy.

  7. At first i thought that was a car windscreen, and shit myself. I see now it’s a hoover.

  8. Please tell me they cant get up north because it too cold, the one thing we have.

  9. It blows my mind that arachnophobia is well-documented and well-understood and well-forgiven, but there’s little recognition for those of us who shit our pants seeing a small angry flying bite+injection armoured flying tiger.

  10. Where in the UK are these? Just so I can stay the hell away from these places, thank you in advance.

  11. How did you come to the conclusion that putting* your hoover in the freezer was easier than releasing it outside? You’d sooner put dust in your freezer than outside?

    Edit: spelling

  12. I started seeing these around April this year 😬 a massive one flew around my head when I was going to my studio in the garden. It wouldn’t leave me alone it sounded like a bloody helicopter! It wanted to be in my studio and kept trying to come in. It won eventually when I ran into the house because I had no idea what it was at the time. A second encounter was in my bedroom, I was putting clothes away and heard it fly in and it was hovering on the back of my neck!! I don’t think they’re aggressive just really hopeless at personal space. I’ve seen them flying around the garden and they don’t seem interested in food or anything like a normal wasp.

  13. I had one of these fuckers land on my pizza once in Greece, scared the ever-loving shit out of me

  14. European hornet. They may look intimidating, but they’re actually rather gentle. They aren’t like their smaller bastard cousins.

  15. Good old Reddit. I hate it when I see posts like these and think “I’m glad we don’t have those in OUR country” only to see the sub name

  16. Where the eff are you and hopefully very south of me. Bad enough contending with the midges

  17. These anti-immigration posts are really picking up steam…

    😀

    Just kidding, but yeah… with climate change, expect us to have some far more terrifying summer creatures.

    It’s ok though, all the Aussies will have to come over here in small boats, and being White piss heads we will open our arms to them, and they will have a terrific industry dealing with plate sided spiders and fist sized stinging insects

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