It was two inches of the most horrific creature I’ve ever seen and it was clinging to the smooth glass surface of our patio door. Using Google Lens I located a description of this monster and it turns out it eats pollen and flower nectar.
The Great Black Wasp is a strikingly large, black wasp with smoky black wings that shine with blue iridescence. It is a type of digger wasp, and most people see it busily eating nectar and pollen from flowers in summertime.
The body is satiny matte black. There is a narrow constriction between thorax and abdomen (it is a “thread-waisted” wasp). The wings are shiny, smoky black, with blue iridescence, usually folded together lengthwise down the back. The legs are long and spiny. The mandibles (mouthparts), usually held together and overlapping, are relatively large and sickle-shaped, with an extra prong in the middle of each curve.
The jaws are used mostly to carry insects back to the hole where it lays its eggs to provide food for its young when they hatch.
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