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 ...

Yellow jackets often build nests partially underground, usually near wood piles or dense vegetation. They swarm most prominently in summer and fall. Paper wasps are primarily brown with yellow ...

The insect is a social wasp species that builds egg-shaped paper nests, often in trees ... public’s help in our effort to eradicate the Yellow-Legged Hornet from our state,” said Georgia ...