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 ...

Yellow jackets aren't friends in your backyard. They're quite a bit more aggressive than your average wasp—they're capable of ...

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 ...