Some wasps tend to be more aggressive than others, though: Paper wasps, yellowjackets, and bald-faced hornets pose more serious stinging hazards while mud-daubers aren’t as aggressive.
They swarm most prominently in summer and fall. Paper wasps are primarily brown with yellow markings. They have a narrow waist and are about 6-12mm long. Their legs dangle or hang down during flight.
THE communities of the paper wasp, like those of other social inseets of the family, consist of three kinds of individuals—males, females and workers. The colonies only exist for a single season ...
To uncover the genetic basis of wasp face recognition, researchers analyzed gene expression in the brains of paper-wasp species that had been trained to recognize faces and compared that with wasps ...