What the bloody hell is this creature in my outhouse?? [pic]

[CountryMummy1]

Just been outside the feed the cat who has his food in the outhouse. There, hanging from the old pipework are 3 absolutely huge cocoons. They are hideous! Black and more than 4 inches long. They weren't there yesterday. What the hell is going to come out? AIBU to be very worried?

sitting here also in the midlands i'm not eyeing my shed suspiciously..

Close up

Sorry stay i pm mnhq first thing this morning for classic nomination and to put them off their cornflakes... (Evil laugh..). Come on op photos...

you touched it???

actually really touched it?

You. Are.Doomed.

hth.

Have you a ruler or tape measure to give scale please

And with hand (I was very brave!)

Don't poke it.

You might anger the mother.

Wowser - that is big!

You're insane.

Do you think the mother is watching you as you type??

This thread is fascinating me and massively freaking me out.

Those things are the stuff of nightmares.

Ugh...shudder...you need bleach for those hands now!

ughhh It's making me itch!

Oh, it's got to be a fungus, surely?

Looks like it's inside the walls and bursting outwards

OP, is the fungus-infected outhouse attached to your house?

Anyone else hoping it isn't just boring old mould?

I am going to guess at some type of weird ant nest... the fact that they have taken soil in, i reckon there are plenty of what is in there as in thousands, in there..... to build something like that overnight.

I am not helping am I.....

Wow that is huge!
Why don't you email the pics to an insect expert (I'm sure a quick google search would find you lots of university links).

Don't poke them though you might kill or stress it. It might be a rare species..... Let's be honest, if there was a species of man-eating months in the UK we would have heard of them! I'm sure you're in no danger!!!!

that is pretty big! Sorry am a bit stumped as my knowledge is Aus-based, rather than UK. I would say perhaps hawkmoth of some sort, as others have suggested.

Actually I think it might be worse if it's mould because only evil mould looks like that. You would have to burn the outhouse down rather than just run away from a moth.

Ah no abso we've never heard of man-eating moths because there's been no survivors...

www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature.html

I really have no idea!

This is scaring the shit out of me :/

How could you put your hand next to that thing argghhhh