what bug is this?

barry, United Kingdom

i killed this bug today as it kept comming at me it took a chunk of wood to bring it down it was big, its about 2inchs in size with big yellow eyes and yellow legs about an inch long it has a big sting, and black,brown and yellow stripes in color, and 4 wingslong yellow antenna. i have never seen anything like this before. please help i have 2 more photos

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Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a)

debs,
I think your large bug is the Giant Wood Wasp or Horntail (Urocerus gigas): http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/general3.htm

We have a page for it in BugFiles, with no images so far: http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/2716/

Your pictures are not very clear, but perhaps you could add your first image to our page to illustrate the species.

This forum is not the right place to ask for identifications, it is intended for problems with adding data to BugFiles. If you have further identifications, post them to our Bug and Insect Identification Discussion Forum: http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/bugid/all/

Kennedy

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