Possible Clues:

• Ranger regularly bitten by angry insect
• Wasp type
• Yellowjacket kin
• 'Doctor Thorne' has a sting in the tail
• 1 across topped otherwise by wasp
• The sound of it being talked over is enough to make you sick
• A large wasp with severe sting
• It starts to deliver a blow with a sting in the tail
• Got a point on the top and a sting in the tail
• It might sting the way the bull might attack it, by the sound of it