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I’m posting this at night…just in case anybody wants to see pictures of IOUS (Insects of Unusual Size).
This…specimen was on my back door on Friday morning. He scared the snot out of me.
He was more than an inch long. Inch and a half, maybe? He also appears to have a bum leg. I wish I had thought to take a picture of him with something that could give you a sense of the size…but, frankly, I was afraid he would figure out how to eat me through the two panes of glass.
I was insanely grateful a) that he was on the opposite side of the glass and b) it was really cold outside, so I think he was just about conked out.
He was gone by noon, and we could safely open the back door. *shudder*
Any bug experts want to tell me why a (hornet??) would be THAT large?? Seriously, I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest for nearly 30 years!
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