[dustinls]

I'm 90% confident I saw one of these hornets in upstate NY a couple years ago.

It was active at night, I thought I heard an electric short somewhere on my porch and that's when I looked up and saw it flying between beams.

A few weeks later we find a dead mouse on the back porch. I was about to go remove it when its head slowly lifted up, then back down. So I thought maybe it was still alive but as I watched it more, it appeared something was actually inside the mouse, eating it from the inside out.

A couple days later I find the large hornet on the front steps, dead. I wish I would have taken a picture in hindsight.

A few weeks later I was pretty sure I saw another during daytime flying past me in the yard. Could have been a cicada killer wasp though, as the cicadas were out at this time too.