Can anyone identify the wasp type insect described below?

Question

Insect was 2.5 - 3cm long.2 x wide bands of yellow with thinner bands of brown colour on thorax. Yellow nose! Looks like only 2 wings.I have photo!

Answer 1

Look closely at the wings, what shape are they? Do they spilt? Do they have a fine or dense membrane? What is the type of climate you found it in?

Answer 2

A European Hornet perhaps??

Does it look like these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet

Answer 3

Hornet.  but will need to see the photo first to make a good call on it

Answer 4

i think its a hornet.  add link to the photo. but it sounds like a hornet a nasty sob

Answer 5

A hornet maybe

Answer 6

Does it play bass in a rock combo?

Answer 7

Sounds too small to be a hornet, leaving the possibility of wasps and bees!

We really need a photo.

Answer 8

maybe its a hornet, i wouldnt know without seeing a picture.

Answer 9

BUMBLE BEE  duhhhh!!!!!

Answer 10

Common names are a wonderful thing.  With 2 wings it sounds like a fly, that combined with the appearance of a bee give me a common name of bee fly.  I look up bee fly on bugguide:

http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&k...

Is your insect here.  Just click on its picture for more info.

Answer 11

A Hornet. Don't kill it. They are an endangered species in Europe.

Answer 12

If you have a photo then try here

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

It sounds like a paper wasp.

Always be good to insects!

Answer 13

maybe a wood wasp?

http://www.uksafari.com/woodwasp.htm