I had a great time working on this hornet.
Here's a timelapse accelerated 30x all the steps to get to this image Timelapse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVs5IQnuPQc&feature=youtu.be
Modeling 5 h 25 min
Texturing 4 h 20 min
Hair 30 min
Rigging 30 min
Rendering 4h24min with blender cycles 2.53.1 hair with GPGPU cuda on GTX670
Compositing 30 min
Bye
Damien