what is this huge bug that got in my cottage?

big,big,wasp or hornet.1inch long,1/4 girth.sounds like a june bug.oblong rear,black and yellow stripes,the thing broke out of the bathroom!It was charging me like a bull!

glenn t2009-06-03T23:22:26Z

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omg are you allright? sandhills hornet lives in northern states sandy country sting viciously

daylily2009-06-03T23:52:36Z

Sounds like a yellow jacket--they will seem to charge you. Could also have been a carpenter bee if it's that wide. They're not actually aggressive, but they don't avoid you, either, and those suckers are big. Whatever it is, spray the thing...

rmbrruffian2009-06-04T00:03:32Z

Did it look like this?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/ImageSuite/UserImages/news/Hornet-kent-news-54_Gm41.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Honey-bees-under-threat-from-invading-Asian-hornets-newsinkent2973.aspx&usg=__PgKApJWg3b37_RtTXXcQxdXgMqo=&h=129&w=167&sz=56&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=viHPjmffxoHR8M:&tbnh=76&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dasian%2Bhornets%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

If so, call an exterminator. If there is a nest of these nearby, killing one may bring hundreds down on you. Don't mess around with these - let professionals handle them.