Wierd long 'waspy' thing

[JG]

I often like driving with the window down, unless it's a really hot day, in whoch case I switch on the air con, but there's something nice about having the window slightly open.

Anyway, the other day I was on the M6 and I was aware of a sensation that felt like a fine needle being injected into my neck. I brushed my neck and brushed off the area, but didn't notice anything. Thinking I was getting paranoid and it was just a stray hair of something rippling up my collar I forgot about it.

A few hours later this horrible spot rose up on my neck, like a blood blister. Been there a couple of days and gone down now.

So I thought, ok, something did bite me, probably some squidgly midgly midge or at worst, a horse fly.

Went to put something in the boot (a dead body) this afternoon and UUURGGGGH!!! YIKESSSS!!! UNCLE SCOOOBY!!!! What should I see? but a horrible thing that looked like a cross between a daddy long legs and a wasp. Thin body, thinner than a wasp but longer, about two, two and a half inches long and longish legs. the body curled up like a scorpion and it was dead as a dodo lying on the parcelshelf. I would have taken a picture but in the heat of the moment I removed it pronto and chucked it in a nearby bin.

Anyone else seen something as lurid and hideous as this? I might move to Zambia for a milder insect population. It looked vicious anyway. Luridly yellow and black and obvious primarily designed to suck blood from larger animals.

[Matt Vinyl]

Gah, I've seen a couple of these muthas... Not at all sure what they are - seem to be, as you say, some sort of hybrid between a wasp and a father of elongated-perambulatory-limbs.

Nasty.

[psyman]

Sounds like a Potter Wasp - nasty. they also come in a brown or black variety.