We’ve got Japanese Hornets here, their sting is reputed to feel like a nail gun. When one gets in the house, you can sort of feel the vibration from their wings, it’s vaguely like a helicopter in the distance. Their exoskeleton is pretty hard, swatting them just pisses them off. Their saving grace is, they’re not usually aggressive toward humans and they eat wasps.
Do they kill stink-bugs?
“We’ve got Japanese Hornets here”
You may be confusing them with the European Hornet. We have the European Hornets well, established here in VA. They aren’t as aggressive as other wasps, but are enormous. The queens can be 2 inches. We kill them in the spring when we can to prevent them from nesting nearby. If the hornets you see have bright, yellow faces (the entire face) and black bodies then yeah, you have the Japanese which are very, nasty, more aggressive, and even larger than the EHs.
As for the Huntsman wasp, I actually video taped one a couple summers ago dragging a spider around my Koi pond. Was actually kinda cool.
“Their saving grace is, they’re not usually aggressive toward humans and they eat wasps.”
OH...meant to add that when the Europeans build a nest nearby...and you know when they have because we see them constantly, we have like zero wasp nests on the eves because yeah, they hunt them!