Yellow jackets and paper wasps are incredibly similar wasps, and it’s difficult for the average person to tell them apart. They’re both yellow and black with thin bodies, slender wings ...

Paper wasps and yellow jackets are found throughout our region. I more often encounter paper wasps around my residence, ...

Social wasps (called yellow-jackets in some places ... Building a small nest of just a few paper cells, the queen must rear the first set of workers alone before the first batch of worker wasps ...

German wasps (Vespula germanica) are very similar in appearance to the yellow-jacket, though very slightly bigger. Hornets build large nests of a paper-like material made from chewed wood mixed ...