The experiment involved slowly introducing different sheets of colored paper to the wasps to see what they would build with ...

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 ...

Yellow jackets (which include bald-faced hornets) and paper wasps are two types of social wasps found in Minnesota. Honeybees and bumblebees are social bees found in Minnesota. Wasps commonly nest ...

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 ...