Apparently this is a tough one. I have searched the internet high and low and nobody has this "hornet" photographed or described anywhere. Maybe you can help me:
First of all we get these things every single year and have as far back as I can remember. Because of this, I thought they were very common but nobody on the internet knows about them.
Location - I am in the greater Cincinnati area
Description - It is an extremely large and fat flying bee, larger than any insect I have ever seen. Honestly it is a little bit smaller than your average sized Hummingbird. It does not have a narrow part of its body like the wasps and hornets that you see usually. When I was a little kid I alway though it looked like the beek of Tucan Sam from Froot Loops. One time we caught one and it had a stinger 1" long (yes, one inch!)
Nest - GROUND, usually protected by a landscape stone or bush.
Behavior - Theses hornet are ULTRA aggressive. If you walk within 30 ft of their nest they will buzz you.|||That sounds like a european hornet. i get them around here too. they are extremely aggressive! and they are huge!|||try WWW.BUGGUIDE.NET You can post the pic on there and someone will be able to ID it with out a boubt.|||With the exception of agressive behavior, this sounds like a cicada killer. This is a really large wasp that lives in burrows in lawn areas. They get very big. Is this your culprit?:
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/cicad鈥?/a>
Hope this helps.
Additional info: August 8th
It took a while, but this hornet has a 3/4" long stinger and is aggressive. Problem is......it's Japanese.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/鈥?/a>
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