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Identification |
About 1/2 -to 1-inch in length. Generally small wasps with black and yellow stripes. It has a yellow head with a black top, a black thorax with yellow on its sides, a yellow abdomen with black bands, black antennae and yellow legs.
Habitat |
Yellow jackets prefer to locate their nests in the ground, usually in an old rodent burrow or similar hole. This wasp also commonly locates its nest inside the walls of a building by entering through cracks or holes in the outside walls. |
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Food Source |
They are omnivorous, feeding on fallen fruit, nectar and carrion, but mostly catching other insects. Common wasps will also attempt to invade honey bee nests to steal their honey.
Life Cycle |
Common wasps do not have a mating flight like ants do. Mating takes place between young queens and drones in the vicinity of the nest. At the end of autumn the nest dies and the only wasps left alive are the young mated queens. They fly away and find a safe place to hibernate for the winter. It is not uncommon to discover a hibernating queen in the folds of curtains in houses. Within each of the hibernating queen wasps is a tightly packed ball of dormant sperm stored from mating the previous summer. She is able to release newly activated sperm each time she lays an egg without the need for repeated matings. |
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