Icky and 'Erie,
Ummmmmm, you're all gonna smack me but no

, it wasn't THAT "extravagant" looking...the ovipositor wasn't long and hair like, it was shorter and stumpier.
I really think it was similar to a HUGE bald-faced hornet but with an ovipositor. It had white stripes on its abdomen (I dunno about the thorax). Maybe it was like Kat posted, a horntail??? But it was also more hornet-like than the horntail.
AAAGH!! I'm so picky.

However, I only saw it from the underside, too. It was crawing on my window and I was just looking at it, fascinated and repulsed all at the same time!! It was pretty cool!
I betcha it wouldn't even sting. Now I feel really BAD for killing it

Rox
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