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Wasp of Doom
I know there's at least one person on this list fond of bees. If there's anyone fond of wasps, they might want to let me know (since I'm about to rant about them a bit again and may do so again in future). This particular wasp hadn't done anything to me, but I have become somewhat prejudiced against them since losing the use of a hand for a week.

This one (about 2cm long) appeared in the living room this evening. It flew around slowly with its body curled (stinger pointing forward) and I ran away and hid behind numberland. She, my knight in shining armour, killed it and got rid of it. I don't know if it was a queen (raising the possibility of eventual construction of a nest nearby) or just very big, but it was scary. Wikipedia's article on the common wasp shows such a queen (neither of us felt like getting sufficiently close to look for spots to see if it was a German wasp, even once it was dead).