Size Matters

[Captain776]

I previously posted I am having trouble with Banded Paper Wasp tormenting the hives and that I kill 2-7 a day and I thought they were big but they are only 1/3 the size of this one.
I found this today between Frames 4-5 and in the middle of the frame in lower box.
The girls had killed it and maybe it killed my Queen, I am not sure yet.
This thing is 2 inches long (5 CM).
It looks to big to even be Apis Dorsata as Internet says they get to 3 cm but this one is 5 cm.

[Michael Bush]

It looks more like a moth in the picture, though real life it may look different.  Definitely not dorsata.

[Captain776]

After posting, it was identified to me as. Tomato Hornworm Moth and it is also known as a Death Head Hawk Moth

Known for masking itself to smell like a bee and raiding beehives for honey

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s-head_hawkmoth

[sc-bee]

After posting, it was identified to me as. Tomato Hornworm Moth and it is also known as a Death Head Hawk Moth

Known for masking itself to smell like a bee and raiding beehives for honey

And "Silence of the Lambs"

[Fishing-Nut]

Neat little bug.........I'd have to name it........then squash it. 

[tycrnp]

It's Mothra!   

[Michael Bush]

Volume II, Chapter VII of Huber's New Observations Upon Bees is all about this.

[Captain776]

Neat little bug.........I'd have to name it........then squash it. 

It is in perfect shape and I have been talking to the Entemology Professor here at University and she wants me to collect all the Banded Paper Wasps for her research and I froze the Death Head Moth and will give that to her also.