a bug that is making holes in my yard and the look like a large bee?
Answers:
Probably a cicada killer wasp.
The adult cicada killer is a very large (1-1/8 to 1-5/8 inches long), robust wasp with a black body marked with yellow across the thorax (middle part) and on the first three abdominal (rear part) segments. The head and thorax are rusty red and the wings russet yellow (brownish). Legs are yellowish. Coloration may resemble yellowjacket wasps.
Other answers:
cicada maybe
cicada maybe
maybe locust
Muddogger.. It is a bee and it will sting you!!
a beetle?
muddobber? hornet?
Carpenter bees! Little buggers will act like termites, too. This one calls for professional help to kill off.
Could be a masonry bee (no kidding)
what color is it? size?
I was in this Pest Control business for a couple of years and started finding them in the N. Georgia Mtns. They are a european bee. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you.
Those are ground wasps. The nest can be quite huge underground so stay back and call either a exterminator or that guy that will come and vacuum them out of the ground for you and then sell them to a antidote company to make antivenom.
Be warned if you get too close they can be lethal. You can wait until nighttime to pour diazinon over the hole and then alittle water and a cover to gas them to death. But that takes bravery or..??? Anyway, just be careful.
Blessed BEE~...lol
If their tail is dark with white stripes they are probably what we used to call weather bees (I don't know the official name). Carpenter bees look like bumble bees and the burrow into wood. But weather bees burrow into the ground. I don't really know if they have a bad sting or not. I've never heard of anyone being stung by them. I've walked through hundreds of them and never been bothered by them.
I think what you have is the cicada killer. They drag large insects in the hole to feed on, usually locusts, which is where they get the name. They do sting, but only one (cannot remember if the male or female stings). The sting is rated @ .5 on the scale, so it's pretty mild. But they are scary as heck, and sound like a helicopter. We trapped one under an iron skillet out camping once. Should of heard how pissed that thing got. Sounded like a golf ball bouncing off the skillet. :0)
sand hornet
if it is unable to fly it might be a jerusalem cricket or commonly known as potatoe bug