Garden Pests and Diseases: Intimidation.......Hornet?, 1 by jackieshar

jackieshar wrote:
sorry picture, but it is the best I could get. Dozens of these things appearing in my working flower beds in the last couple of days. Rapidly buzzing around, hard to even get a photo.... buzzing, scareing me. I don't use insecticides in my butterfly gardens. I am looking for a nest and not finding anything. They seem to dissappear into the ground covers, making me think they are ground nesters. I googled hornets and the pictures are not good there either. Showing pictures of a hornet nest, I haven't seen anything around here like that. Large wasp like maybe half the size of my thumb and fat......seem to travel in twos..verrrry fast and noisy..HELP ID, afraid to work the beds I am carrying a can of hornet spray with me, but they are too fast to even spray