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 ...

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

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 ...