Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: monster wasp-like kamikaze bug, 1 by DevilDogs

DevilDogs wrote:
I'm sitting here enjoying my time on DG and I keep hearing this noise from across the room at the window like someone is throwing something at it to get my attention. I finally get up to look and there is the biggest wasp looking thing I've ever seen. It's over an inch long and making a loud buzzing noise. I run out of the room to get DH. He comes in and it's gone (of course) but as soon as it came back he saw it and says yeah it's big and yeah it looks like a wasp but it's outside and your inside so relax. Then I hear him go talk to his friend in Cali and tell him it's huge and looks like something out of a scifi movie and very freaky looking. Now this thing just keeps flinging itself against the screen then crawling around it buzzing. Sorry it's such a bad picture but it's thru the screen and not a chance I was going outside to get a cleaner one. Any clue what this is? We are already having wasp problems and I'd hate to think this is the daddy of them all...