Yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps are able to sting multiple times unlike European honeybees, and are most aggressive when defending their nests. "If you go after the nest ...

Hornets are decidedly larger than wasps, measuring up to 2 inches in length. They also look fuller and more rounded in comparison to wasps. The European bald-faced hornet, which is the only real ...

Bald-faced hornets are not true hornets. They're in the wasp family and are a species of black and white yellow jacket. The species gets its name from the black and white coloring on the front of ...

Unlike their cousins, the bald-faced hornet, European hornets’ nests will rarely appear freely suspended like the football-shaped nests we sometimes see in the trees. The entrances to European ...

Wasps and hornets are sometimes called yellowjackets, but these are another species of wasps that usually build a nest in the ground or walls and attics of buildings. European hornets.

Habitat: Yards, meadows, forest edges, parks. Creepy fascination: Getting stung by a bald-faced hornet is “similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door,” according to entomologist ...