To be scared by finding this insect in my lounge!

[Channellingmyinnerfeline]

About 1.5cm long. Look at its tail / stinger! What on earth is it?! It flies too. I've never seen anything like it in all my years.
I can't stop scratching just thinking of it.
Excuse the pic, I caught it in the nearest jar which is a bit grubby.

Burn down the house and move.

It's the Mumsnet way.

It's cute.

Burn the house down though! It WILL kill you and your family (including pets,) and then it will demolish your house with a wrecking ball, and then steal your car.

I'm just kidding

Probably.

Previous poster are right I think. It DOES look like one of these...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonoidea

Not common but not super-rare.

Parasitic. Wasp.

Shudder.

Horsefly?

Reading through this thread and my god farted. I've just ducking jumped out of my skin! Get a bit jumpy when I see/ read anything about insects. Wow it does look strange though. What is it?!

The pointy bum thing is far more likely to be an ovipositor than a sting. Totally harmless. Unless it uses it to lay eggs in your brain.

I had one of these land by me in the garden. It was flipping huge.

Mini beasts of global warming!