Here are the most common types of wasps: Yellow jackets are predatory, one-half-inch-long wasps with alternating black and ...

Yellow jackets are predatory, one-half-inch-long wasps with alternating black and yellow bands on the abdomen that live throughout North America. They swarm most prominently in summer and fall.

The nest-dwelling, picnic-disrupting black-and-yellow terrors that generally come to mind when the word “wasp” is mentioned are actually unrepresentative of the group. Most wasps are small ...