One of the 1+ inch long hunting wasps. They're so hard to photograph with an autofocus camera...
This one “ant” with whitish wings on the kitchen counter in NW-H/JV, Harris Co, TX It was pointing its hind area up like a wasp/bee to sting but may just be a defensive copycat.
Fly? Or bee? Photo not clear enought to tell for sure.
Not very confident about this one.
On log sections cut from a huge tree limb that fell on our house.