Businesswoman Terrified Over a Giant Hornet-Like Insect Falling From the Sky Into Her Garden, What Could It Be?

While enjoying a break from work at her home in Hull on Saturday, business owner, Samantha Stoneley, 28, discovered a giant wasp-like insect who fell out of the sky and landed dead in her back garden.

She had some workers at her house laying decking in her back garden when they heard the insects' buzzing sound.

According to her, the insect was nothing like she had ever seen because of its enormous size, not even in Australia, a country known for its exquisite wildlife.

"It just hit the floor and didn't move from that position," Stonely said. "We were all so shocked and just looked at each other like, 'what do we do now? It frightened me so it would frighten any child coming across it playing in their garden."

She is concerned that children playing in her garden could get hurt if they came across the insect. But what could this giant wasp-like insect be?

Terrifying-Looking Insect Is a Harmless Wood Wasp

Though it looks frightening because of its size, Principal Curator in Charge of Insects at the Natural History Museum, Dr. Gavin Broad, believes that what Samantha found in her garden is harmless.

He told MailOnline that the insect which fell from the sky into Samantha's garden is a wood wasp known as Urocerus gigas. It is a harmless, large sawfly and is a relative of wasps.

A wood wasp's larvae feed on wood, hence the name. It takes about three years for the insects to eat enough wood before emerging as an adult. These are quite common in places where there are plenty of pine trees, which they typically eat.

The thing which looks like its sting is the ovipositor, which it uses to drill a hole into the wood to lay its eggs inside.

Its black and yellow color pattern is a defensive mimicry that makes them look like stinging wasps to have a lesser chance of being eaten by birds.

Furthermore, another expert on insects, Professor Jim Hardie, Director of Science for the Royal Entomological Society, confirmed that the insect Stephanie found in her garden is indeed a wood wasp.

According to Hardie, these impressive insects are harmless and are native and widespread to England. But the insect found in Stephanie's garden was not the only one found recently.

Another Giant Wasp Found in the Garden

A few days ago, the same creature was discovered in an east Hull garden shocking residents because it might be the giant Asian killer hornet. It is an insect known for its distinctive yellow legs, similar to what was found in Samantha's garden, and has a very potent venom.

According to the news outlet, The Sun, the two-year-old Noah from Hull found another hornet-like insect in his family's back garden. Noah's father, Paul Everingham, was able to capture the insect in a plastic container and tried to find out what insect his son discovered.

Paul believed that it was the giant Asian killer hornet, which is considered by many that can kill humans in one shot.

But an expert said that the insect discovered by Paul is more likely an Asian horntail, which is a harmless insect.