Margaret, we may not be talking about the same thing, however, i have seen a large black wasp like creature, (nothing like a carpenter bee by the way) it was shaped more like a british wasp but 3 or 4 times bigger and totally black, it also had either extra legs or really long hairs sticking backwards out of the abdomen i think, and i heard it coming for age's it was really loud, have no clue what it was, but can spear it's no carpenter bee, the carpeter is quite pretty, this wasn't, was quite scary, also, my friend in work managed to kill one, and brought it in to work in a normal size match box, it only just fitted! really wanna know what it is, because have not seen it even searching through google, by the way am in uk, where are you? regards dave
