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 come in a rainbow of colors, including red, yellow, black, and brown, and are on the larger end of the spectrum at 3/4 to 1 inch in length. Non-aggressive species of wasps include ...

Building a small nest of just a few paper cells, the queen must rear ... As Dr Seirian Sumner (UCL) says: "The black and yellow wasps that bother us at picnics are social wasps and we would ...